{"id":682,"date":"2018-07-29T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/?p=682"},"modified":"2018-07-29T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T07:58:45","slug":"nicehash-down-no-such-host-is-known-a-connection-attempt-failed-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/29\/nicehash-down-no-such-host-is-known-a-connection-attempt-failed-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"NiceHash down &#8211; No such host is known. A connection attempt failed &#8211; FIXED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, my NiceHash mining software will show a blank or $0 daily mining estimate, and the excavator service window will show errors and a 0 H\/s speed on all crypto algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the excavator window is showing a host of errors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>resolve: No such host is known (11001)<\/li>\n<li>connect: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond (10060)<\/li>\n<li>async_wait: The I\/O operation has been aborted because either a thread exit or an application request (995)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status1.png 959w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status1-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status1-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To resolve a &#8216;connect&#8217; or &#8216;unknown host&#8217; issue, I generally connect the NiceHash mining software to a specific service location, rather than leaving it to use an &#8216;automatic service location&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But first, it&#8217;s important to visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/status.nicehash.com\/\">https:\/\/status.nicehash.com\/<\/a> and check the status of the global service locations, and NiceHash as a whole:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status2-1024x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status2-1024x872.png 1024w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status2-300x256.png 300w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status2-768x654.png 768w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status2.png 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, NiceHash is suffering from a DDOS attack in certain regions, so I will un-check the &#8216;automatic service location&#8217; checkbox, and manually select &#8216;India &#8211; Chennai&#8217; as it is geographically closer to me (in Australia) than &#8216;Brazil &#8211; Sao Paulo&#8217;. The &#8216;automatic service location&#8217; is currently steering me onto the offline &#8216;USA &#8211; San Jose&#8217; server.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stop&#8217; the mining process and click on the &#8216;configure&#8217; gear on the NiceHash miner software dashboard. Un-check the &#8216;automatic service location&#8217; checkbox. The &#8216;service location&#8217; drop-down will become usable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status3.png 625w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status3-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a working &#8216;service location&#8217; based on information from the status site at NiceHash.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status4.png 626w, http:\/\/iblogit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/status4-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Start your mining, and confirm that there are no errors, and an acceptable Hashing speed is showing!<\/p>\n<p>Happy mining!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, my NiceHash mining software will show a blank or $0 daily mining estimate, and the excavator service window will show errors and a 0 H\/s speed on all crypto algorithms. This time, the excavator window is showing a host of errors: resolve: No such host is known (11001) connect: A connection attempt failed because<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/29\/nicehash-down-no-such-host-is-known-a-connection-attempt-failed-fixed\/\"><span class=\"arrow-right icon\"><\/span>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[65,31,30,39,36,38,37,32,74,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iblogit.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}