[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[bitpop]

i dont blame the bot commanders. i blame the idiots that let their computers turn into virus laden festering bots.

[centove]

Not specifically about slushs pool...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/fueled-by-super-botnets-ddos-attacks-grow-meaner-and-ever-more-powerful/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

[RoboCoder]

I will be willing to bet that the DDOS attack(s) are for one of the following reasons:

. Manipulate BTC price
. Manipulate Difficulty
. Destabilize BTC and crypto-currency in general.

Slush, we are all here for you man!

Is there anything I (we) can do, if so let us know.  Would server resources help you in any way? Or financial?

Please PM me if there is anything I can do to assist.

RoboCoder

[BitcoinOxygen]

I will be willing to bet that the DDOS attack(s) are for one of the following reasons:

. Manipulate BTC price
. Manipulate Difficulty
. Destabilize BTC and crypto-currency in general.

Slush, we are all here for you man!

Is there anything I (we) can do, if so let us know.  Would server resources help you in any way? Or financial?

Please PM me if there is anything I can do to assist.

RoboCoder

+1

[Xenotron]

I start to think that probably it's not a bad idea to have decentralized pool.

[centove]

If you have the IP what about doing a tracert to see where exactly it comes from? Though I'm guessing that may also give you roughly the same information as doing the whois and reverse lookups.

Not really it will give you the path and some hints on who owns it, whois will tell you who the space was assigned to by the registrar, so that's who is ultimately responsible for the ip in question. Whois also lists contact information to get in touch with someone (hopefully).

So for instance, lets talk bitcointalk.org.. -- 109.201.133.65

traceroute tells us thus:
18  30-239-159-85.rtr1.b06-s02-az16.gsa.nl.nforce.com (85.159.239.30)  106.420 ms  109.760 ms  109.593 ms
19  5-239-159-85.rtr1.dbn.nl.nforce.com (85.159.239.5)  120.049 ms  118.963 ms  119.622 ms
20 * * *
(probably filtered at this point)

whois however tells us this:
netname:        NFORCE_ENTERTAINMENT
descr:          Serverhosting
admin-c:        NFAR
(...)
person:         NFOrce Entertainment BV - Administrative role account
address:        Gewenten 8
address:        4704RD
address:        Roosendaal
address:        The Netherlands
phone:          +31 (0)206919299
fax-no:         +31 (0)206919409
abuse-mailbox:  abuse@nforce.com
nic-hdl:        NFAR
mnt-by:         MNT-NFORCE
source:         RIPE # Filtered
(...)

[centove]

I start to think that probably it's not a bad idea to have decentralized pool.

Here ya go.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0

[scouzi]

I start to think that probably it's not a bad idea to have decentralized pool.

Seems that slush miners have gravitated towards 50BTC - not BTC Guild. Amazing that there is a collective ecosystem balancing at work.

http://blockchain.info/pools

[jerethdaminer]

seem to be getting loads more stales atm ideas

[thehairymob]

Still down?

[ewitte]

Irritating have 1771 shares off the current round but since I can't get reconnected going to get barely any BTC

[klotzenhotz]

Hi, are there problems again? Can't connect again for about 2 hours.

[Camello_AR]

Is up a little time and down again.

Someone has anything personal with slush as I see

[salty]

i dont blame the bot commanders. i blame the idiots that let their computers turn into virus laden festering bots.

What, like your grandma? (not a personal attack, but you get the idea)

It's not their fault they go into some big store and are sold a pup that runs windows in admin mode with Java, flash enabled, by some grinning salesperson that assures them their 'Norton' will keep them safe. My opinion is that the people who make the computer distros, and the people who sell them, should be providing more secure devices. But where's the incentive? That's where the blame and pressure should be going. Things have been getting better on this front and I suspect once all the windows XP and Vista computers have been retired this problem will seriously diminish.

Your argument suggests that if you don't have a CS degree you shouldn't be using a computer though.

[solitude]

Down at 11:00 AM Eastern

[Turok]

appears to be down again. Another DDoS?

[slush]

Guys at OVH datacentre failed. They're even bigger idiots than Linode admins.

I'm migrating stratum backends to another datacentre. Please be patient, I'm working on it hard.

[digital]

appears to be down again. Another DDoS?

Likely the same one.   -Edit after slush's response.

DDoS aren't a static thing.  It's a flood of traffic to a specific IP or server in order to overload the target so it's inaccessible to other users.  By it's very nature the site will go up and down as the DDoS traffic fluctuates.

DDoS attacks can last for days.

[roukkie]

ddos gonna escalate in my opinion,we must implement some countermeasures,like udp and icmp filtering or engress filtering...

[lbr]

Guys at OVH datacentre failed. They're even bigger idiots than Linode admins.

I'm migrating stratum backends to another datacentre. Please be patient, I'm working on it hard.

Maybe it would make sense to lower Getwork fees then?
Cause atm all my miners felt back to getwork since stratum is not accessible.