[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers

[aneutronic]

I'm getting blocked from www.btcguild.com. the miner seems to be connecting still but I can't get to the dashboard or graphs to check anything.

No problems here. Probably a problem at your closest CloudFlare server. Nothing I can do about that other than wait.  CloudFlare is only used for website access. The mining servers are completely separate.

thanks for the quick reply.
It's been blocked for ~11hrs so I'm having doubts if it will come back on it's own.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/btcguild.com.html shows it's working for others.
anything else I can try?

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[eleuthria]

I'm getting blocked from www.btcguild.com. the miner seems to be connecting still but I can't get to the dashboard or graphs to check anything.

No problems here. Probably a problem at your closest CloudFlare server. Nothing I can do about that other than wait.  CloudFlare is only used for website access. The mining servers are completely separate.

thanks for the quick reply.
It's been blocked for ~11hrs so I'm having doubts if it will come back on it's own.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/btcguild.com.html shows it's working for others.
anything else I can try?

What error do you see when trying to load?  Is it an actual error page, or is it a generic browser error?

[aneutronic]

What error do you see when trying to load?  Is it an actual error page, or is it a generic browser error?

generic - mostly a blank page, chromium just timeouts and gives this message:

This webpage is not available

will this traceroute result help?

Code:

~ $ traceroute www.btcguild.com
traceroute to www.btcguild.com (162.159.241.90), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  myrouter (192.168.0.1)  2.174 ms  2.164 ms  2.147 ms
 2  dynamic-acs-*-*-*-*.myISP (*.*.*.*)  8.991 ms  12.365 ms  17.741 ms
 3  static-acs-*-*-*-*.myISP (*.*.*.*)  19.903 ms  19.911 ms  19.898 ms
 4  dynamic-acs-*-*-*-*.myISP (*.*.*.*)  19.899 ms  19.874 ms  19.847 ms
 5  xe-3-2-1.mpr4.phl2.us.above.net (208.185.145.149)  28.561 ms  28.573 ms  28.553 ms
 6  ae2.mpr3.phl2.us.above.net (64.125.31.25)  31.281 ms  26.602 ms  26.581 ms
 7  ae4.cr1.lga5.us.above.net (64.125.31.34)  29.527 ms  25.601 ms  29.983 ms
 8  ae1.cr2.lga5.us.above.net (64.125.29.38)  31.546 ms  30.626 ms  30.588 ms
 9  xe-0-2-1.er2.lga5.us.above.net (64.125.30.210)  23.680 ms  27.580 ms  34.830 ms
10  paix.xe-5-3-0.cr1.nyc2.us.nlayer.net (198.32.118.91)  31.931 ms  22.232 ms  26.172 ms
11  vlan-78.ar2.ewr1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.34.127)  32.929 ms  36.634 ms  32.918 ms
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[aneutronic]

just tried with my phone, tmobile, and I can bring up the site and login ok.
not a great solution but still no go through my ISP.
 

[eleuthria]

just tried with my phone, tmobile, and I can bring up the site and login ok.
not a great solution but still no go through my ISP.
 

Do you use your ISP's DNS resolvers?  Try changing to better ones like Google's DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) or OpenDNS.  This wouldn't be the first time an ISP's DNS resolvers are giving bad/old IPs for Guild.

[aneutronic]

I use opendns, I hate my isp. 

this is weird. I changed to google's dns and it worked then switched back to opendns again and still working. 

dead rat in the pipe?   

I dunno but it's good now, thanks very much for your help.

[elasticband]

feature request:

• Which worker made how much money
• How much money specified worker made from specified date to specified date

setup more than one account if you really want to monitor what each worker earns

[os2sam]

I use opendns, I hate my isp. 

this is weird. I changed to google's dns and it worked then switched back to opendns again and still working. 

dead rat in the pipe?   

I dunno but it's good now, thanks very much for your help.

Here's a great utility to help you find the best DNS resolver for your location.

https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

[eleuthria]

I know CloudFlare is seeing some issues today for certain regions (not always their fault, there's been some high packet loss on major providers in the last 12 hours).  Some of the proxies are loading *extremely* slow, sometimes skipping stylesheet elements or images.  This is *not* the BTC Guild website, scripts, or backends having problems.  If your miners are running happily, your earnings will be fine.

This is just a PSA for the few users experiencing it (my personal connection is having a terrible time with the local Cloudflare proxy).  I hate having to rely on CloudFlare because it seems there's always a region in the world having some kind of issue since they proxy it among so many different servers rather than a single extremely high uptime datacenter.  However, there is a noticeable benefit from their service that outweighs the occasional inconveniences.

[aneutronic]

I use opendns, I hate my isp. 

this is weird. I changed to google's dns and it worked then switched back to opendns again and still working. 

dead rat in the pipe?   

I dunno but it's good now, thanks very much for your help.

Here's a great utility to help you find the best DNS resolver for your location.

https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

thanks, I'll give it try.

[AussieHash]

Is there a connectivity problem in the past half hour ?

I have several units at Anotherhost, connected to both the EU and US servers and most of my Jupiters have jumped to their secondary pool.

[eleuthria]

Is there a connectivity problem in the past half hour ?

I have several units at Anotherhost, connected to both the EU and US servers and most of my Jupiters have jumped to their secondary pool.

No problems on the pool's side.

[AussieHash]

Is there a connectivity problem in the past half hour ?

I have several units at Anotherhost, connected to both the EU and US servers and most of my Jupiters have jumped to their secondary pool.

No problems on the pool's side.

Might have been anotherhost's issue.  They have moved datacentre a few days back with 12 ! hours of downtime (and a few teething problems after that).

All my jupiters are showing about 400GH/s av now, so I assume they all switched pool and have switched back again

[AussieHash]

Still having issues with my jupiters/anotherhost/btcguild

8 jupiters (2 are november batch)

They're still hopping back and forth to the secondary pool

All jupters are running at only 3/4 hashrate

Code:

 cgminer version 3.8.1 - Started: [2014-02-02 23:06:36]
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 (5s):804.1G (avg):520.1Gh/s | A:102402  R:512  HW:2255  WU:7250.3/m
 ST: 2  SS: 70  NB: 5  LW: 146023  GF: 3  RF: 2
 Connected to stratum-lb-usa48.btcguild.com diff 512 with stratum as user redacted
 Block: 761cd9c6...  Diff:2.19G  Started: [23:24:07]  Best share: 34K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 KnC 0:                | 899.2G/520.2Gh/s | A:102402 R:512 HW:2290 WU:7282.6/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The above is after I restarted cgminer - I find sometimes there is a discrepancy between pool and cgminer (falsely high) stats that is fixed with a cgminer restart.

A november jupiter should be running at WU 9300+
The hardware error ratio is only 2% according to cgminer

Code:

 [2014-02-02 23:23:25] Stratum from pool 1 detected new block
 [2014-02-02 23:23:25] KnC running flushwork
 [2014-02-02 23:23:26] Pool 1 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
 [2014-02-02 23:23:26] Accepted 1a3440e8 Diff 2.5K/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2014-02-02 23:23:30] KnC: core 2-50 was disabled due to 10 HW errors in a row
 [2014-02-02 23:23:31] Accepted 400fb583 Diff 1.02K/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2014-02-02 23:23:35] Accepted 58f39be5 Diff 737/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2014-02-02 23:23:37] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 stable for 5 mins
 [2014-02-02 23:23:37] Switching to pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2014-02-02 23:23:37] Accepted 2250d1a1 Diff 1.91K/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2014-02-02 23:23:50] Accepted 257fe2d7 Diff 1.75K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:50] Accepted 2cf36ec5 Diff 1.46K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:51] Accepted 546f2997 Diff 776/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:52] Accepted 46b6c6fa Diff 927/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:54] Accepted 3ac174db Diff 1.11K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:57] Accepted 47c197cb Diff 913/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2014-02-02 23:23:57] Accepted 1ab51edf Diff 2.45K/512 KnC 0 pool 0

Note the pool stable comment and the stale share detected comment

Assuming one ASIC board was down on all 8 of my Jupiters, I loaded bertmod on a november jupiter and found all ASIC boards running, however

STATUS=S
When=1391383792
Code=11
Msg=Summary
Description=cgminer 3.8.1|SUMMARY
Elapsed=1394
MHS av=555843.78
MHS 5s=647015.92
Found Blocks=0
Getworks=71
Accepted=296
Rejected=1
Hardware Errors=2734
Utility=12.74
Discarded=80
Stale=73
Get Failures=3
Local Work=192585
Remote Failures=2
Network Blocks=5
Total MH=774623121.6374
Work Utility=7719.50
Difficulty Accepted=151042.00000000
Difficulty Rejected=512.00000000
Difficulty Stale=34310.00000000
Best Share=55868
Device Hardware%=1.5019
Device Rejected%=0.2856
Pool Rejected%=0.2755
Pool Stale%=18.4597|  

The stale ratio was 31% when I started writing this post.  

Any suggestions ?  Restart cgminer on the remaining 7 jupiters ?

Edit : having just restarted cgminer on a different november batch jupiter, only the semiprivate server was available for the first few minutes
0: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 0: http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted
1: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 1: http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted
2: Enabled Alive Quota 1 Prio 2: stratum+tcp://semiprivateserver  User:redacted

[eleuthria]

I'd go with restart them all.  You might try replacing stratum.btcguild.com with the redirect URL directly (it's in your output above).  Can't really say for sure why you're seeing issues though, other than it isn't the pool's side having issues.

[AussieHash]

Sigh ... This is the 2nd November batch jupiter after cgminer restart

Code:

 cgminer version 3.8.1 - Started: [2000-01-03 08:22:37]
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 (5s):610.5G (avg):286.0Gh/s | A:23040  R:420  HW:1086  WU:4059.4/m
 ST: 0  SS: 71  NB: 1  LW: 33439  GF: 1  RF: 1
 Connected to stratum-lb-usa48.btcguild.com diff 512 with stratum as user redacted_november2
 Block: 18d9981c...  Diff:2.19G  Started: [08:22:37]  Best share: 68.6K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 KnC 0:                | 947.0G/293.7Gh/s | A:23552 R:420 HW:1086 WU: 4157.2/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 0: http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted
1: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 1: http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted
2: Enabled Alive Quota 1 Prio 2: redacted  User:semiprivateserver
ber2

Current pool management strategy: Failover
[F]ailover only disabled
Pool [A]dd [R]emove [D]isable [E]nable [Q]uota change
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
Or press any other key to continue
 [2000-01-03 08:23:51] Pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 08:23:51] Switching to pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:24:01] Pool 1 stratum share submission failure
 [2000-01-03 08:24:13] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
 [2000-01-03 08:24:41] Failed to resolve (?wrong URL) stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:25:24] Lost 68 shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 1
 [2000-01-03 08:25:24] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 08:25:24] KnC: accepted by FPGA 17 works, but only 0 submitted
 [2000-01-03 08:25:44] Pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 not responding!
 [2000-01-03 08:25:44] Switching to pool 2 stratum+tcp://semiprivateserverhere.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:26:03] Pool 2 stratum+tcp://semiprivateserverhere.btcguild.com:3333 not responding!
 [2000-01-03 08:27:25] Pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 08:27:26] Pool 1 communication resumed, submitting work
 [2000-01-03 08:27:31] Work available from pools, resuming.
 [2000-01-03 08:27:42] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 08:27:42] Switching to pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:27:42] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 08:27:42] KnC: accepted by FPGA 21 works, but only 0 submitted
 [2000-01-03 08:27:51] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
 [2000-01-03 08:27:51] Work available from pools, resuming.
 [2000-01-03 08:27:52] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 08:27:52] KnC: accepted by FPGA 21 works, but only 0 submitted

Code:

cgminer version 3.8.1 - Started: [2000-01-03 08:22:37]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):770.3G (avg):396.3Gh/s | A:69634  R:420  HW:1640  WU:5498.8/m
 ST: 2  SS: 98  NB: 1  LW: 95622  GF: 2  RF: 1
 Connected to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com diff 512 with stratum as user redacted_november2
 Block: 18d9981c...  Diff:2.19G  Started: [08:22:37]  Best share: 68.6K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 KnC 0:                | 943.0G/397.7Gh/s | A:69634 R:420 HW:1640 WU: 5510.7/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2000-01-03 08:32:15] Accepted 181a18a3 Diff 2.72K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2000-01-03 08:32:17] Accepted 153921c3 Diff 3.09K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2000-01-03 08:32:25] Accepted 3b1f84d7 Diff 1.11K/512 KnC 0 pool 0
 [2000-01-03 08:33:55] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2000-01-03 08:33:55] Lost 27 shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 0
 [2000-01-03 08:33:55] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 08:34:05] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
 [2000-01-03 08:34:15] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 not responding!
 [2000-01-03 08:34:15] Switching to pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:34:35] Pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 not responding!
 [2000-01-03 08:36:26] Pool 2 difficulty changed to 2
 [2000-01-03 08:36:26] Pool 1 difficulty changed to 2
 [2000-01-03 08:36:26] Pool 2 difficulty changed to 512
 [2000-01-03 08:36:30] Work available from pools, resuming.
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] Accepted 16dd998e Diff 11/2 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] Reconnect requested from pool 1 to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] Pool 1 difficulty changed to 2
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] Pool 1 difficulty changed to 512
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] Stratum from pool 1 requested work restart
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 08:36:31] KnC: accepted by FPGA 21 works, but only 0 submitted
 [2000-01-03 08:36:37] Accepted 266101cc Diff 1.71K/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2000-01-03 08:36:46] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 2
 [2000-01-03 08:36:46] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 08:36:46] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512
 [2000-01-03 08:36:50] Pool 1 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
 [2000-01-03 08:36:50] Accepted 77998ddd Diff 548/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2000-01-03 08:36:51] Pool 1 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
 [2000-01-03 08:36:52] Accepted 6014dfeb Diff 682/512 KnC 0 pool 1
 [2000-01-03 08:36:53] Pool 1 stale share detected, submitting as user requested

Update :
found losts of cores had a FAULT error on november2 with bertmod.
loaded enable cores and restarted the jupiter
WU fixed, still took a few minutes for the 2 public servers to wake from the dead

Code:

cgminer version 3.8.1 - Started: [2000-01-03 09:05:14]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):623.9G (avg):598.5Gh/s | A:21506  R:512  HW:381  WU:8963.7/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 27692  GF: 0  RF: 1
 Connected to stratum-lb-usa48.btcguild.com diff 512 with stratum as user redacted_november2
 Block: ac46549c...  Diff:2.19G  Started: [09:05:14]  Best share: 36.8K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 KnC 0:                | 923.8G/598.5Gh/s | A:21506 R:512 HW:381 WU: 8963.7/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 0: http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted_november2
1: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 1: http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted_november2
2: Enabled Alive Quota 1 Prio 2: stratum+tcp://semiprivateserverhere.btcguild.com:3333  User:redacted_november2

Current pool management strategy: Failover
[F]ailover only disabled
Pool [A]dd [R]emove [D]isable [E]nable [Q]uota change
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
Or press any other key to continue
 [2000-01-03 09:06:27] Pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 09:06:27] Switching to pool 1 http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 09:06:36] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 09:06:36] KnC: accepted by FPGA 21 works, but only 0 submitted
 [2000-01-03 09:06:47] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive, testing stability
 [2000-01-03 09:06:47] Switching to pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
 [2000-01-03 09:06:47] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 09:06:55] Pool 0 stratum share submission failure
 [2000-01-03 09:06:56] KnC running flushwork
 [2000-01-03 09:07:00] Pool 0 communication resumed, submitting work

[eleuthria]

Sounds like Anotherhost has a really, really bad connection.  There's really nothing I can see from the logs.  Your miner is working, the connection is just flakey as hell, and it isn't coming from this end.

[jarhed]

Hey eleuthria, I'm about to .gif all your webgame MMORPG styled characters.
Idea is to articulate trolled answers via animated gestures.

[eleuthria]

Hey eleuthria, I'm about to .gif all your webgame MMORPG styled characters.
Idea is to articulate trolled answers via animated gestures.

Did you save them all?  Last I checked, BitMonsters is unresolvable, took down that server a long time ago (for now).  Either way, would prefer to not have them turned into meme/troll gifs.  I do eventually plan to use those art assets for something.

[jarhed]

Hey eleuthria, I'm about to .gif all your webgame MMORPG styled characters.
Idea is to articulate trolled answers via animated gestures.

Did you save them all?  Last I checked, BitMonsters is unresolvable, took down that server a long time ago (for now).  Either way, would prefer to not have them turned into meme/troll gifs.  I do eventually plan to use those art assets for something.

Only the ones posted here earlier.

For whatever reason I woke this morning with an image of your avatar throwing up a rhetorical middle finger or just waving both hands in the air whenever BTCGuild owns the chain.

So far only your avatar was prep for animation.