[ANN][LTC][Pool][PPLNS][STRATUM] - ltc.kattare.com - burnside's Mining Pool

[odie158]

Burnside-
I know you're busy with the recent happenings at litecoinglobal but could you fix the pool please?

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[rusBruin]

What are some other good pools that resemble what Burnside used to be in the past?

[nybbler905]

Cant tell if it's a DDNS or some other issue for connecting to Burnsides...
intermittent ping to the site ( if it's not unreachable )  any one know if there is some weather issue that could be causing communication issues with the site???  Every once in a while it will load my last looked at page but won't refresh.

 

** edit **
traceroute to ltc.kattare.com (72.52.7.137), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  x.x.x.x  10.460 ms  10.471 ms  10.539 ms
 2  x.x.x.x  10.652 ms  10.719 ms  10.790 ms
 3  x.x.x.x  14.211 ms  14.223 ms  14.207 ms
 4  x.x.x.x  14.904 ms  14.960 ms  14.975 ms
 5  66.163.68.185 (66.163.68.185)  17.024 ms  17.101 ms  17.164 ms
 6  rc3sj-tge0-0-1-0.cl.shawcable.net (66.163.77.146)  41.004 ms  34.912 ms  34.903 ms
 7  blackhole.prolexic.com (206.223.116.136)  36.108 ms  40.988 ms  40.870 ms
 8  209.200.184.34 (209.200.184.34)  40.343 ms  37.611 ms  37.508 ms
 9  unknown.prolexic.com (72.52.7.137)  37.423 ms  37.546 ms  37.638 ms

possible server issue... don't know any reason for a server to point to a blackhole ( line 7 )
 

[Lytse]

I think burnside uses the LTC to pay his lawyers 

[forevernoob]

This is the longest down time I have experience in my days with the pool.
Anyone heard anything on what's going on?

[nybbler905]

no word, but the site seems back ....
for now...

 

[odie158]

The site still seems to be acting funny. It is my favorite mining pool and perhaps it is just having a run of bad luck. I have decided, however to point my rig at my backup pool until I see a few blocks found or until Burnside posts a message that he has checked the pool and it is working properly. I hope that one of the two happen soon.

[wowchick]

Three days without a single block... It's not a bad luck, it's definitely something wrong with the pool. It seems that burnside doesn't care about what the faq is going on now with it. 

[forevernoob]

Seriously, WTF?

Has this happened before? Maybe he's on vacation.  

[nybbler905]

[2013-09-29 23:38:24] Pool 0 http://ltc.kattare.com:9332 not responding!
B.C. time zone here....
 

[wowchick]

Pool hashrate is at 56MH/s. I think it's due to the fact that pool can't accept shares:
...
[2013-10-02 18:38:15] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-02 18:38:33] Rejected 2e9c32d0 Diff 584/63 GPU 2  ((2001, "Can't create UNIX so
[2013-10-02 18:38:37] Accepted 4ad820a8 Diff 796/63 GPU 0
[2013-10-02 18:38:40] Rejected 1004f121 Diff 2.33K/63 GPU 1  ((2001, "Can't create UNIX so
[2013-10-02 18:38:50] Rejected 4a2829fd Diff 694/63 GPU 0  ((2001, "Can't create UNIX so
[2013-10-02 18:38:52] Rejected 683426c5 Diff 261/63 GPU 2  ((2001, "Can't create UNIX so
...

Can't create UNIX socket?

Any ideas on when it'll be fixed?

CGMiner cannot authenticate itself to the pool either:

[2013-10-02 18:42:41] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: [
   -1,
   "(2001, \"Can't create UNIX socket (24)\")",
   null
]

[nybbler905]

[2013-10-02 15:29:21] Started cgminer 3.4.0
 [2013-10-02 15:29:21] Loaded configuration file /home/nyb905/.cgminer/ltc.conf
 [2013-10-02 15:29:21] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-10-02 15:29:22] Network diff set to 69.8M
 [2013-10-02 15:29:22] Long-polling activated for http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/LP


seems to be up and running... then again, had a power outage for most of my day here ....
I really dislike the lack of communication about what has been going on with the pool lately.  I'm still mining LTC here as long as I can mine LTC... and with the current hash rates VS what rate I can get my grubby paws on, it is more likely the cost of power that would get me to stop mining here than issues with the site.
** edit **
yep, another system now down and waiting on an eBay replacement power supply due to the power flashes where I am... so much for ' name brand ' on the cheap really having protection against power line issues...

[forevernoob]

I think the reason why burnside hasn't been communicating much is because he's super busy.
Apparently from what I've read, he's some kind of crypto currency god.
Hosting a shit ton of sites related to bitcoins and alt coins is probably time consuming.

[nybbler905]

Aaaannnnddd it's down again, both pool and site, just quit responding 15:15 BC time

[burnside]

Aaaannnnddd it's down again, both pool and site, just quit responding 15:15 BC time

I hate to do this, but I recommend only using the site as a backup or similar until I have wrapped up the shutdown of litecoinglobal.com and btct.co.  The server has been unstable, but I have not had time to address it beyond rebooting it whenever there are issues. 

Really sorry about that.  I'll stabilize things as soon as I can after things have calmed down from the other sites.

Cheers.

[odie158]

Aaaannnnddd it's down again, both pool and site, just quit responding 15:15 BC time

I hate to do this, but I recommend only using the site as a backup or similar until I have wrapped up the shutdown of litecoinglobal.com and btct.co.  The server has been unstable, but I have not had time to address it beyond rebooting it whenever there are issues. 

Really sorry about that.  I'll stabilize things as soon as I can after things have calmed down from the other sites.

Cheers.

Thanks for the heads up Burnside. I thought the site had been acting fishy.

[burnside]

Helllo,

I have blocked my payout adress to: 1M6pQjjaBDA7jnCBoaTRr6izMUGEq7kAQn but it was my BTC adress so if it is possible to unlock my payout adress it will be nice thanks.

Best Regards,

Sounds like I need to add address validation on the withdrawal address submissions.  Sorry about that.

Can you please PM me your account details?  I'll look into it.

Cheers.

[nybbler905]

Just my 0.00000002 LTC worth here....

 Be patient on replys to Burnside when it comes to account changes.  I would hate to have to go through his side of the account verification and editing to make sure YOUR account really is YOUR account let alone check if LTC was sent to a BTC address...

As a side note....
 
With issues i'm having with power supplies, GPUs and spiders ( yes, the 8 legged kind ) I highly recommend  people take the oportunity to clean their mining rigs.  I've noticed a speed improvement in scrypt hash and lower heat since just blowing out the dust bunnies and putting on new thermal paste and that was just the PSU!!!  Ok, half lie there, blew out the psu, put paste on some of the more heat sensitive components in there and got a more steady 12V out for the GPU and the spiders were NOT happy having to find a new home.

[burnside]

Just my 0.00000002 LTC worth here....

 Be patient on replys to Burnside when it comes to account changes.  I would hate to have to go through his side of the account verification and editing to make sure YOUR account really is YOUR account let alone check if LTC was sent to a BTC address...

Thank you nybbler.

Yes, I'm still working on the btct.co shutdown.  Hundreds of requests unfortunately, so I am a bit slower than I'd like to be responding.

Cheers.

[Dudeniks]

As a newbie i had to make a few posts before i could ask here, at least i'm out of noob jail now 


Hey guys, i need some help!!!

I recently was quite disappointed with another pool, so i tried burnside's.

Now i've got a strange problem with LTC Stratum Mining.

I started a few days ago at burnside's and it works very good as long as the server load is low. If it is at mid i have HUGE probs to even start stratum mining and if it starts, my systems show full load but on the status page i see around 60kH/s and 15% stale. (Usually around 800kH/s and 0,3% stale)

It also shows loads of stale in guiminer.

The last three days at 1am (cet, i'm from germany) i had to change to longpoll to keep it going and around 10am when server load is low again i could switch back to stratum.

I'm not really familiar with the technics behind so i don't know, what could cause the Problem, all i know is that i did'nt have such problems in the pools i used before.

I really hope you can help me solve that strange problem!

Thanks a lot and have a nice day,

Dudeniks



PS: I have 2 PC, i5 750@5850 and c2q6600@6950, both running OC and really stable.

This is the error i get on both when i try to start the miner with stratum. When i change to ltc.kattare.com:3333 everything works as usual:

2013-11-16 00:48:47: Running command: "C:\guiminer-scrypt_win32_binaries_v0.04\cgminer\cgminer.exe" --scrypt -u xxx.xxx -p xxx -o http://ltc-stratum.kattare.com:3333 --gpu-platform 0 -d 0 -w 256 -v 1 -I 19 -g 1 -l 1 -T  --thread-concurrency 6144
2013-11-16 00:48:47: Listener for "Burnside" started
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:48:47] Started cgminer 3.1.0
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:48:47] Probing for an alive pool
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:08] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: [
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": -1,
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": "(2001, \"Can't create UNIX socket (24)\")",
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": null
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": ]
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:47] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:47] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:47] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:47] Pool: 0  URL: http://ltc-stratum.kattare.com:3333  User: xxx.xxx  Password: xxx
2013-11-16 00:49:47: Listener for "Burnside": [2013-11-16 00:49:47] No servers could be used! Exiting.