My experience with Ghash.io .. Miners becareful about ghash.io

[tgrbd]

I started mining few weeks ago. After several experiment, I started mining with ghash.io.
Everything was fine until yesterday except downtime of their site. I was earning steadily
from this pool.

To improve connectivity I used their ip(stratum+tcp://88.150.205.242:3333)
instead of stratum+tcp://uk1.ghash.io:3333. I found no problem with it. Everything was
ok in my account with ghash.io. It was showing shiftworks, shares, hash rate, changes
in hash rate etc. perfectly.

However yesterday ghash.io was getting fewer blocks than usual. I checked
blockchain.info and found that blocks found with ip(88.150.205.242) were not distributed
among the miners. Only blocks found with ghash.io were shared with miners.

Very interestingly after my complaint ghash.io is again getting block in their usual manner.

Screenshots are shown here:
https://sites.google.com/site/bitcoin4bd/

My concerns
1. Is it really matters in using ip:port or domain:port
2. If ip:port is not acceptable, why the site showing all my info
3. Are they stealing BTC from miner secretly?

Waiting for their reply.

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[DaveF]

I don't mine with GH that much, I use them for testing when setting up new equipment.

However in the internet world I can tell you that if you look up an address you will get an IP but that IP might not be that address.
OR to put it more simply.

www.somesite.net = 1.2.3.4
BUT
1.2.3.4 might not = www.somesite.net


with host headers and other things you can have several sites (or in this case stratum servers) on 1 IP.
Using the above example
www.somesite.com = 1.2.3.4
www.someothersite.com = 1.2.3.4
www.atestsite.net = 1.2.3.4
www.yetanothersite.biz = 1.2.3.4

IF uk1.ghash.io is not the default site on that IP but rather privateuseforsomepeople.ghash.net or internaluse.ghash.io it's not their problem. They did not tell you to connect to the IP, you did that on your own.

-Dave

Sorry if the above is a bit snippy, but I have been dealing with people hard coding IPs into things for years and it ALWAYS causes problems in the end. 

[HellDiverUK]

Most likely some Cloudflare server's IP or something similar. 

I suggest the OP refrains on posting threads like this until he/she gets a clue.  A little knowledge is dangerous.

[tgrbd]

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Interestingly, though I was using IP, in ghash account stats was showing
everything perfectly.

 

[general lee]

I think BTC GUILD much better

[Lucko]

This is an attack that is redirecting miners to that IP. It is happening on all(well not sure but I know BTCGuild, Ghash, Slush and Eligius are affected and it is not limited to BTC only scrypt is also affected) the pools...

[eleuthria]

This is an attack that is redirecting miners to that IP. It is happening on all(well not sure but I know BTCGuild, Ghash, Slush and Eligius are affected and it is not limited to BTC only scrypt is also affected) the pools...

I've yet to see a single report of a BTC Guild miner being directed elsewhere.  I've had somebody claim they saw a connection from another pool redirected to a BTC Guild account, but the report was false (the account they claimed to be redirected to doesn't even exist, and I don't believe the attack can actually change worker credentials).

[Lucko]

This is an attack that is redirecting miners to that IP. It is happening on all(well not sure but I know BTCGuild, Ghash, Slush and Eligius are affected and it is not limited to BTC only scrypt is also affected) the pools...

I've yet to see a single report of a BTC Guild miner being directed elsewhere.  I've had somebody claim they saw a connection from another pool redirected to a BTC Guild account, but the report was false (the account they claimed to be redirected to doesn't even exist, and I don't believe the attack can actually change worker credentials).

It happened to me. It happened to all miner at about same time. They were on BTCGuild, ScryptGuild, Ghesh and Eligius. So don't think you are not effected...

19 rigs 4 locations 2 different ISP...

[KyrosKrane]

This is an attack that is redirecting miners to that IP. It is happening on all(well not sure but I know BTCGuild, Ghash, Slush and Eligius are affected and it is not limited to BTC only scrypt is also affected) the pools...

I've yet to see a single report of a BTC Guild miner being directed elsewhere.  I've had somebody claim they saw a connection from another pool redirected to a BTC Guild account, but the report was false (the account they claimed to be redirected to doesn't even exist, and I don't believe the attack can actually change worker credentials).

It happened to me. It happened to all miner at about same time. They were on BTCGuild, ScryptGuild, Ghesh and Eligius. So don't think you are not effected...

19 rigs 4 locations 2 different ISP...

I don't think this would affect p2pool, would it? Particularly if you're mining on a local node, not a remote one.

[opentoe]

This entire system is BETA. That should explain a few things. Learn how to use Ghash better, you can get more out of them.

[KyrosKrane]

This entire system is BETA. That should explain a few things. Learn how to use Ghash better, you can get more out of them.

This ... is impressively cryptic. Which system? What does it explain? How can we "get more out of them"?