asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: item is general-purpose pilot box, plz feel free to mutilate any way you like. the trb is a copy of 'zoolag', can replace w/ own favourite build, or switch off, etc. there is a nearly full chain. znc is set to smoketest knobs, if using , must reconfig.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: zoolag at 592682 , btw, as of 1min ago.

asciilifeform: here's 1 moar tidbit : 172.86.178.46 , 216.151.13.77 , and 91.218.246.31 appear in zoolag's -addnode list but have NOT supplied 1 single block in the entire period represented in above log !!!

asciilifeform: and 0 from anyone else. (zoolag, asciilifeform's personal noad)

asciilifeform: the ominous bit is that miners themselves are apparently letting these go w/out actually verifying (or they'd sit as long as zoolag is sitting, per)

asciilifeform: in re trb -- zoolag ~still~ chewing on a block (perhaps the genuine ..450, perhaps not) even nao.

asciilifeform: and indeed zoolag's been sitting in disk i/o wait for ~10m nao..

asciilifeform looks at 'zoolag' log, it quite depressing picture, 900000 'heathen command, banned' erry hr

asciilifeform: dorion: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/588012.blk << blk # 588012 from zoolag.

asciilifeform: ( can't speak for all, but -- lacking 'aggression' , node 'zoolag' routinely was behind 100+ blox as often as not )

asciilifeform: will note, even with the heap fragging nonsense, current trb has quite reasonable ram footprint; e.g. i run 'zoolag' on a 2GB box, and never manually reset aside from when deploying patch (coupla times in past yr)

asciilifeform: it was pulled from zoolag the day before ( and not because sad, but to expand the latter to 1tb )

asciilifeform: i'ma leave a tcpdump -w fuckwads.pcap -i eth0 "host 165.227.138.176" or "host 178.238.224.213" running on zoolag

asciilifeform: in other noose, 178.238.224.213 ( by all indications, does not contain a public node of any kind ) has been spamming randomly generated blox, incl. to zoolag, at the rate of 5-10 erry sec ☟︎

asciilifeform: they happen erry coupla wks on zoolag, but are almost always of arity 1

asciilifeform: !Q later tell trinque is http://trinque.org/2018/07/06/cuntoo-bootstrapper-preview/ still most recent cuntoo ? i got errything ready to bake cuntoo lappy ( the oddball lcd box; old ssd from zoolag ) ; should proceed or wait for update ? ty

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers ! zoolag is nao back in service.

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers! node zoolag will be going down for ssd upgrade in ~10m, for at least 1hr

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers! zoolag going down for ~30min for test of experimental patch, in ~10m

asciilifeform: diana_coman: btc noad ? never connected to zoolag ( at least not in past month )

asciilifeform: fwiw zoolag in particular hasn't even seen ~invalid~ blox for ~2h.

asciilifeform: 'Asciilifeform ran the experimental patch bringup in trb node zoolag' << bahahahawaaat

asciilifeform: meanwhile in the trb observatory, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/cMfST/?raw=true << restarted zoolag, and confirms my earlier hypothesis -- 'bastards' from friendlies are simply when they throw their latest block blindly at each peer, without concern for who actually can eat it, and who cannot. shitoshi's shit protocol.

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in trb observatory : http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/trb/10_1_ProcessBlock.txt << anatomy of a 'noad behind'. whole night zoolag fed nuffin but 'bastards', and incl. by friendlies, in continuation of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-01#1856264 ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: in other minor noose, 100% of blox since this morning on zoolag are from tbf/pizarro, with exception of 1, from mod6's 208.94.240.42.

asciilifeform: ^ spoiler/anticlimactic -- loox like just about all new blox on zoolag come from the pizarro noades

asciilifeform: speaking of which, thus far nearly all of zoolag's valid new blox came from one 149.56.19.79

asciilifeform: currently live on zoolag.

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers ! trb node zoolag will be down for approx 20min for experimental patch bringup, starting 5min from nao.

asciilifeform: fwiw it's been in continuous test on zoolag since day1 ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757668 ) ; iirc several other folx also tested ( incl. 'side by side' nodez ) , see what they have ( ben_vulpes ? possibly mircea_popescu ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for comparison : the last time i reset 'zoolag' was to change ps. and the time before that -- to swap in the 'aggression' build

asciilifeform: far better, for instance, than my node 'zoolag', specwise

asciilifeform: attn folx : node zoolag is back in service

asciilifeform: attn folx : node zoolag is back in service.

asciilifeform: attn folx : zoolag node going down for scheduled maintenance , for next ~12h

asciilifeform: faster, in principle, even than zoolag

asciilifeform: in other not-quite-noose, not only is zoolag unfailingly in sync, but today had personal record broken, 31 peers.

asciilifeform: dulap-II had a serious striped-raid ; still took 5x as long to verify same block as fist-sized, raidless ssd zoolag.

asciilifeform: though i will point out, for completeness, that i saw NO substantial 'behinditude' on zoolag since feeding it the pill against shitoshi's sync retardation.

asciilifeform: ( dulap had ~ok trb performance on spinning rust, but it had striped raid . and STILL couldn't keep up with ssd zoolag, despite the latter being a box the size of my fist, with no raid, on residential fiber )

asciilifeform: in unrealated noose, massive reorg on zoolag

asciilifeform: !~later tell trinque how does deedbot's block-fetch history for past 2wk look ? zoolag's performed very, very well re 'tip of spear' , and there appear to exist at least 5 other fully-synced trb boxen that regularly speak to it.

asciilifeform: in other noose from asciilifeform's chamber of horrors : zoolag continues to astonish -- at tip of the spear continuously since reaching sync

asciilifeform: in other noose : zoolag still on tip-of-the-spear, working pretty great.

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag has 21 peers, and has been at the bleeding tip of the spear continuously ( at least through the lens of asciilifeform's hand-cranked observatory gear) since getting there.

asciilifeform: meanwhile zoolag, a machine the size of a man's fist, not only has 0 problem keeping up with tip of spear, but slightly pacing ahead of, e.g., bci & co

asciilifeform: mod6 plox to re-add zoolag to trb roster.

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! zoolag -- seems to be at tip of the chain.

asciilifeform currently puzzling over 'motherfuckers, e.g. deedbot is 501444-high, why is it physically possible for zoolag to have open connection to it and yet sit at 501436 for 20+ min'

asciilifeform meanwhile was watching zoolag sync, 'hmm 10min from nao' turned into hour+, and still 10blox behind. culprit seems to be a combo of 'everybody else is lagging' and 'flooded with mempool crud, and as result , not spending enuff time disconnecting unproductives and pushgetblocks()ing with novel peers'

asciilifeform: in related noose, zoolag covered ~20k blox in 4days. and looks set to fully sync by tomorrow morning.

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag with 'aggression' : walked from 484621 to 495973 in ~60 hrs.

asciilifeform: which presently leaves asciilifeform with no place to put the bot ( i won't keep it on zoolag, uncloaked irc-to-fleanode results in massive shitfloods routinely )

asciilifeform: the current test on zoolag, however, is mighty interesting: after floundering in a sea of prb for ~hour, thing's been loading blocks almost continuously. at this rate will actually sync in a week or so.

asciilifeform: in other noose, 'aggression' patch is apparently ~the~ pill against what ailed zoolag; 482253 -> 484621 in ~12hr , previously that was 3-4 day's worth

asciilifeform: fwiw 'aggression' is live on (still syncing...) zoolag, as of today.

asciilifeform: trinque: 'zoolag' still 30k behind

asciilifeform: while we're on subj : zoolag @ 462075 .

asciilifeform: oh try this unbelievable horror on for size : zoolag since http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-19#1700485 is STILL syncing ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( zoolag is at 446213 currently )

asciilifeform: it's approx same as 'zoolag'

asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-03#1719958 << plox to remove the deceased dulap, 46.166.165.30 . and also note that 108.31.170.49 ( zoolag ) is at 382k and will remain useless as a public node for some weeks. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in zoolag yes

asciilifeform: ( zoolag still syncing , however. slowly walking through the upper 300s atm )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706896 << ftr current zoolag runs in 2GB of physical ☝︎

asciilifeform: if speaking of cheap nodez, zoolag costs ~0 ( aside from disks ) , i get fiber to the grounds regardless

asciilifeform: 49 zoolag

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702394 << it is zoolag, it is resyncing, and ( i assume everybody knows ) it is ~impossible to usefully connect to a trb node that is syncing ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701819 << ~actual~ - i.e. ~hardware~ raid -- ain't cheap, even the controller, and mobo with actual slots, for it to sit down in, each cost more than all of zoolag ! ☝︎

asciilifeform: ssd also more , obviously, compact, and lower current. e.g. zoolag is approx the size of my fist. and runs from a wall wart.

asciilifeform: hanbot: the 1st two are mine ( #1 -- zoolag, which is midway through a resyncing, on account of a dead ssd ; 2nd is dulap, which is humming along )

asciilifeform: zoolag @ 206640 an' syncing happily on

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG panzers!! trb node 'zoolag' is back in business, this time as ordinary linux box -- syncing from 0 . same ip as prev. ☟︎

asciilifeform: zoolag live as of now at ye olde 108.31.170.49 . ☟︎

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG PANZERS , welcome back the new zoolag

asciilifeform: about to put zoolag back in service. it will sync, for some days.

asciilifeform: habemus netbsd-zoolag.

asciilifeform: btw in case this wasn't clear, this was zoolag , which did 2+ yrs of 24/7 trb.

asciilifeform: old disk in zoolag was with centos.

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform took the chance made by the death of ssd in 'zoolag' to attempt netbsd. result : no boot. ( with or without 'no acpi' ) option, hangs at usb init. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( even if it's yer personal box. asciilifeform had a bunch of stuff grind to a halt when zoolag went )

asciilifeform: trinque: if it relied on zoolag, it will be hungry until the new ssd crate arrives ( tomorrow at dawn )

asciilifeform: RIP zoolag ( until replacement comes... )

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag is back in service