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[Slipknot79]

Dat 0172001 wall 

[palawan]

Amazon AWS EC2

I'm not sure why this is the recommended way to run a masternode, but I can tell you I have enough for 1 MN and I was  planning to run one (on the day we had so much problems which stopped my plan).

I never considered Amazon EC2 as an option because of security.

I have an Amazon EC2 server right now.  I'm connected to it.  It's my OpenVPN server and also my PPTP server (for tablets/cell phones).  I've had at least 1 EC2 instance for over a year so it hasn't been free for me for many months now.  I still pay.  I like my server.  Nothing on it that's worth anything if a hacker hacks it.

So why I never considered an EC2 as a masternode?  It's because the EC2 has 2 IP addresses.  One on the internet (which everyone in the world can see).  This IP address is quite secure (oddly enough) per your Security Group definition.

The private IP is the problem.  It will look something like this  10.2xx-1xx-61.  I was able to ssh to the private IP from one EC2 to another (using certificate, of course, don't consider username/password).  So other ports are also open.  Even if they are not open on the Security Group/Internet IP.  This is now a matter of securing your EC2 applications/OS/network-FW.

One of the EC2's I was running in the past was an Asterisk VoIP server.  Fail2Ban was full of attempted attacks from China, Brazil, etc.  Why was it odd?  Well my Security Group was defined to only accept connections from Tmobile network and other networks I defined.  My Internet IP was not reachable outside of those networks.  But the "private" IP shared with everyone on the Amazon cloud (i.e. Netflix, maybe I should hack them, lol) was accessible to these hackers.  Think of your home network shared with thousands and thousands of unknown's.  Sure, your Windows XP box is secure with a firewall (lol), but against thousands of attackers, it will probably fall.

I would not run a Masternode on a VPS and definitely not on an Amazon EC2.

I have this as my stratum-server   http://goo.gl/cpFXg8     upgraded to 2GB.  It's low power.  No need for a hard drive.  Install Linux on a USB 16GB  (around $12).  Plug in temporarily to monitor during setup.  Afterwards; ssh with byobu-enabled (screens but better).  What more you need?  This behind my ddwrt router which I have full control, I can trust to run my Masternode with only port 9999 open.  I don't think Masternode needs RPC.

Just my .02 DRK humble suggestion...

Can you not just shutdown all ports on the private IP?

You can.  Of course.  You can harden that instance to make sure no other application is running on it.  If it's a Linux instance, you can use iptables/ufw.  Again, my point is that I don't want my Masternode server to be on the same network as thousands of unknowns.  Which is why my analogy of your home network connected to thousands of unknowns.  You can try to secure your stuff, but why be on the same network as these guys?  And they have bad intentions based on the fail2ban reports I was seeing.

ddwrt router would only open port 9999 to the MN.  Even if I'm running an MN that is not fully hardened, it can't be accessed.  I'll have other ways to access the box for remote admin stuff, but it will be through a single IP defined on the ddwrt router.  I plan to use ssh with certificates also.  Forget username/password.

[Ozziecoin]

Wait a second
Ozzie posting he'll set peoples MN's up for 10drk
then all of a sudden "some guys" ridiculously lousy MN gets "hacked"
lol just saying

I have no hacking skills!  Also, if I had 1000 darks, why would I bother charging 10 now? LOL

I was implying that you set up a lousy MN with someone and broke into it yourself to spread fear. Most likely you didn't but I found it a funny coincidence. Nothing against you setting up masternodes.

Cool, cool. I didn't take it seriously.    But setting up no security MN is no way to do things. Also, I would be the first to be accused!

[xibeijan]

"      HOOO
      OOOOLD
for the longest time..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qooBzE2w

[micky123]

Hi All,

I have downloaded cpu miner to mine darkcoin, but every time i setup and run the batch file, i get  a whole load of crap running up my screen, basically telling me that my shares were not accepted .

This is the configuration of my batch file, can someone please confirm that this is fine?

minerd.exe --url=stratum+tcp://pool.xhash.net:3355 --userpass=xxxx.worker3:x

Thanks for any assistance provided

[tibolt]

104 BTC buy wall nice...

[raze182]

Hi All,

I have downloaded cpu miner to mine darkcoin, but every time i setup and run the batch file, i get  a whole load of crap running up my screen, basically telling me that my shares were not accepted .

This is the configuration of my batch file, can someone please confirm that this is fine?

minerd.exe --url=stratum+tcp://pool.xhash.net:3355 --userpass=xxxx.worker3:x

Thanks for any assistance provided

Should look something like this:

Code:

minerd -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u username.worker -p password

[jonesT]

DRK is now the 4th place. Please, vote:

https://sharexcoin.com/votings



Must register. A new coin is chosen daily.

BUMP

[Artoodeetoo]

Looks like Xc will be drk's sister pos coin the way it's going!

[nzminer]

Looks like Xc will be drk's sister pos coin the way it's going!

It looks like a damn good coin and im just annoyed i never heard of it earlier!
It has jumped from nothing to 500%

There is alot of FUD about it though so am unsure if its  a scam or not.

[luke997]

Looks like Xc will be drk's sister pos coin the way it's going!

Based on?The only anon thing XC has is.... developer.

This is Darkcoin thread, please discuss XC in the XC thread.

[Icebucket]

So, who wants to talk about DRK?

We should start a speculation thread. Would be a good way to gauge sentiment.

I think coins101 does a pretty decent job of that. More is better though, right?

There already is one?

Well, voting threads speculating on price @ X date. I'm not sure if there was much discussion or not though.

There is a speculation thread on darkcointalk
https://darkcointalk.org/forums/speculation.34/

[miningpoolhub]

Is x11 FPGA came out?

Net hash is going up so much.

[raze182]

New article:

http://bitscan.com/articles/the-rise-of-darkcoin

[baddw]

You can.  Of course.  You can harden that instance to make sure no other application is running on it.  If it's a Linux instance, you can use iptables/ufw.  Again, my point is that I don't want my Masternode server to be on the same network as thousands of unknowns.  Which is why my analogy of your home network connected to thousands of unknowns.  You can try to secure your stuff, but why be on the same network as these guys?  And they have bad intentions based on the fail2ban reports I was seeing.

ddwrt router would only open port 9999 to the MN.  Even if I'm running an MN that is not fully hardened, it can't be accessed.  I'll have other ways to access the box for remote admin stuff, but it will be through a single IP defined on the ddwrt router.  I plan to use ssh with certificates also.  Forget username/password.

So... if you don't trust your firewall to block all connections from the private network, how can you trust it to block stuff you don't want from the Internet at large?  I get that Amazon will upstream block some trash (DDOS etc.) from the internet, but if the private interface is being fully firewalled and no services are listening on it anyway, then it shouldn't even need upstream protection from (say) DDOS, right? And Amazon would presumably pull the plug on anybody who attempted DDOS within their private network anyway.

I also don't see how "being on the same network as thousands of unknowns" is any less scary than having it on a virtualized server in general, where your instance is pretty much guaranteed to reside on hardware that shares VMs (and thus physical CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD) with unknowns.  Don't get me wrong, I understand protected memory and all that jazz, but still the thought is scary as hell, and IMO scarier than having a fully blockable virtualized network connection to a private network.  In both instances, you basically have to trust that things work as advertised.

All that being said, if I had the DRK to run a MN, I would be setting it up on hardware that I own and have formatted from 000000's, in a locking case, in a colo in the city where I live.  If the revenue grew to be significant enough, I would spring for a locked private rack.

Really, my home network IS connected to the same network as thousands of unknowns.  It's called the Internet.  My home network is just behind a firewall (router, whatever you want to call it) that I trust.  Currently it is a commercial router (not much important going on in my home network), but I have run a FreeBSD box with multiple NICs as my main home router in the past, when I was running a small web service company from home.  In any case, I obviously wouldn't try running a MN on my home network, no matter how good my router!

Agreed, SSH with certificates is better than username/password, but sometimes impractical.  Restricting SSH access to a single IP is good too.  Just make sure that you can always obtain outbound access from that IP whenever you need to; and also that that IP will never ever change.

[baddw]

Is x11 FPGA came out?

Net hash is going up so much.

My guess is GPU miners fleeing Scrypt for any and all alternative algorithms.

[Slipknot79]

cumshotfiesta with XC im all in yo

use 0.0712001 buy wall, sell DRK and cum to XC 

[coinzcoinzcoinz]

New article:

http://bitscan.com/articles/the-rise-of-darkcoin

Pretty good article

[nomad1109]

I am just going to throw out there what I said the other day... I wish I could find the article I read, but I am sure someone else read the same thing. I don't always understand where people come up with their analysis, but so far he seems dead on, and I am encouraged at the possibilities still.... not wavering one bit.

To recap, he stated that so far DRK has followed the same pattern over and over (I think he said it has happened 5-6 times already), and that is the price of DRK climbs 5x, and then has a 40% sell-off.

Well, the price peaked at .0277 btc before this latest drop started...

Using that number, .0277 x .6 = .01662

This is right about where we have seen the price finally settle after some valleys & peaks trading around this level.

So assuming he is right, sometime in the next couple of weeks the coin could be heading upwards to the .0831 neighborhood ($48.04 based on current price of BTC).

Just repeating what I read really, but until I see different I think it is the best analysis I have seen.

[slapper]

That is fuzzy math and growth like that is not sustainable at all levels. I am sure that analyst will adjust the multipliers as he gets new trend data at these growth curves. The infrastructure needs to be an unparalleled network of hardened distributed masternodes with good support from markets, merchants and users to command that kind of valuation. Couple that with development team augmentation like Evan solicited, wider recognition through conference presentations and other all around growth, anything is possible.

The hyperboles are as exhausting as the constant flood of no life trolls.