i am the infamous orphan.  The only one this pool has ever known.  Unloved and alone on christmas.     

That orphan was my 3rd block on this pool within a month or so and it marked the change in my luck.   That was 1 month 13 days ago and i have tried everyday to get my block back that was stolen by the chinese...  Spent all 50 of my bitcoins i received from the earlier blocks chasing it.   

You can only hit a block when you least expect it and when you dont need the money.   The more you want it, need it, the more elusive it is....

Merry Christmas all!!!

damn

Pointed half my S3 here. Not expecting anything but why not.
If lucky S7's would be nice.

Looks like another DDoS 

Not sure why I'm being targeted lately but it is what it is. Luckily the Hong Kong node had hardly any miners. Make sure you have backups in case the other nodes get attacked too.

Congrats to whomever solved the block! Hopefully plenty more too come for everyone! That's a good xmas present lol

Awesome!  Congratulations!

Another wave of DDOS?
solo.ckpool.org and solo1.ckpool.org ar not working for me.
de is working, hk not.

Merry Christmas CK & fellow solo miners! and bah humbug to the scrooge DDOS'ers 

Run wireshark and look for fragmented packets being sent from your network.
Or tons of ICMP packets.

Glad I found this thread. I just got through moving all my miners (no, not a bunch...I generate maybe 3Th/s right now, but growing) over to solo.ckpool as the primary, and Slush (which had been primary) to failover yesterday afternoon, intending to run solo for a few weeks and just see what happens. Then the site goes down...wouldn't have known until I looked except that one of the S3s (I call it Dopey) beeped at me exactly three times very early this morning (Hawaii); when I went to check, found all miners had gone failover. That's cool, though, I guess. They did what they were supposed to. I'll check here periodically until it can be renewed.

EDIT
Not sure if it's considered kosher, but I'm gonna switch my miners over to the DE site until the US site is back up. I'm in a unique situation here and don't want to waste any time solo mining prior to June. Input is welcome...and Merry Christmas to all, and thanks to CK.