Pool-X.eu server issues

[tacotime]

Anyone else having big problems with their servers lately?

Round Shares
Your Valid: 5828
Your Stale: 3289, 56.43%
Pool Valid: 133361
Pool Stale: 28856, 21.64%

That's with my miners that have been on constantly with no change to the hardware or disconnections/power offs...

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[jonathan]

Yes I noticed some pool-x downtime today too. I've shifted to litecoin.miningpool.com until pool-x get back to speed. I wish minerd had a backup pool option!

[cfiziksh]

Oh look, litecoin.miningpool.com is on the verge of a 51% attack...

[tacotime]

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Oh look, litecoin.miningpool.com is on the verge of a 51% attack...

I guess everyone should switch to p2pool before it's too late.

[tacotime]

update:

dextrosomniac: is that [dos attacks] what's going on with pool-x pooler?
pooler: dextrosomniac: yes, and my pools has also been dos'ed

Apparently all litecoin pools are being DDoS'd right now, including p2pool nodes:

Boognish: yea it's not just pools, my P2Pool nodes were effected too

[Tittiez]

Yep, my node got hit by it for a little bit too.

[g2x3k]

yea iam sorry for late reply here, everything is back to normal now there wasnt much i could do about i was battleing it allday when i found the fix yesterday i was way to tired to start on mergeing it ive dont have much experience with that either

during my sleep coblee comited fixes to litecoind and i updated when i woke everything is back to normal now


News:
13:45 16-03-2012; update on the past 24hrs of problems, litecoin network been under spam attack wasnt much i could do about until now iam truely sorry and was pain in the ass going to bed/sleeping knowing it wasnt ok here,
woke to happy news that coblee had patched litecoind so i updated here right away, seems to have solved issues for now, again sorry for the downtime

[pooler]

I wish minerd had a backup pool option!

That's actually pretty easy to implement using a wrapper script. Here's a very basic example:
https://gist.github.com/2053044
This is just a very simple example that makes the miner fail over to a different pool if the current one fails a given number of times.
Using commands such as timeout you can implement all the strategies you want. The possibilities are endless.

I'm sure there must be a way of doing that on other operating systems, too.

[jonathan]

--retries='x' <== sweet, thanks!