Mining pools consist of a network of miners pooling their resources together to solve blocks and share rewards. Within these pools are nodes, which serve as points of connectivity and data exchange. The IP addresses of these nodes essentially act as their digital addresses, allowing them to communicate over the internet.
In practice, most mining pools do not publicize the IP addresses of their nodes (servers) due to security concerns and to mitigate risks like Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Instead, they provide mining pool members with a domain name or URL, such as “stratum+tcp://poolname.com:port,” which translates to the actual IP addresses needed for connecting to their mining services via DNS (Domain Name System) resolution.
For members of a mining pool wanting to connect their mining rigs, using the provided pool address is usually sufficient as the DNS resolves the URL to the respective IP addresses needed for mining. Miners rarely need to know the specific IP addresses unless they are setting up complex configurations or need to troubleshoot network issues. In such cases, a simple DNS lookup tool can be used to convert the pool’s domain name into the IP address.
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