Is Oink Down?

[necromantic]

I'm getting the "server not found" message in firefox and "hostname not found" error on my torrents. Anyone else having trouble?

[Demigod]

OiNk is fine on my end. Maybe you've have been banned or perhaps, they banned your IP range only.

My advice would be to try accessing through a proxy.

[skazany91]

Meybe they had Ddos attack, today everythink is fine ...
my friends had the same problem as you

[necromantic]

OK i think it's site having trouble. I got on, was browsing for a few min and now I have the "server not found" error again

[eliteman]

DNS problems

[redMonster]

Yes, DNS problems. Search the forums a bit and you will get the solution.

[enahmadbs]

it's work here

[JA]

Its down for me, and my torrents arent working either :)

[kaoblanco]

Edit your hosts file on your machine/seedbox with the DNS fix.

Both the website and torrents will work again.

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p-oink-lovers-post2093955/postcount24

[juzam1907]

I can access oink with using direct ip but still oink.me.uk doesn't work also oink torrents don't work.How can ı overcome this problem?

[phrenzy]

do the DNS fix and it will work just fine..........

[phrenzy]

do the DNS fix and it will work just fine..........

[kayvanblue]

its down for me! how ever if you use a web proxy you can still access it!
"http://www.hidemyass.com/" use this site and the type the oink adress in the adress bar to bypass it

[Emad1129]

Yes OINK is down

[kaoblanco]

Just edit your hosts file (the DNS fix) and your torrents will work, so will the site.

See above for the links.

[rhe]

down for me too , it was working a few hour's ago

[kaoblanco]

It's not news. So... take action. :)


Edit your hosts file on your machine/seedbox with the DNS fix.

Both the website and torrents will work again.

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p-oink-lovers-post2093955/postcount24

[thejosher]

Fine here.

KEEP THE IPS IN YOUR HOSTS FILE.

[kilontek]

how can the dns fix be done on a mac?
thanks in advance

[(FRANCESCO)]

Yes OINK is down

[upGrayde]

no you got banned

[LackOfInterest]

From oinks News


We apologize for the continuing DNS problems. You can get around this by adding our hostnames directly to your hosts file. Add the following lines to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (the number of spaces between the IP and the name doesn't matter as long as there's at least one space (or tab):

85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk

[necromantic]

any idea how to do this on a seedbox now?

[(FRANCESCO)]

it works man ...

thx

[JunelBT]

it works man ...

thx


Worked for me also, haven't been able to connect for 2 days.

[ceasar]

From oinks News


We apologize for the continuing DNS problems. You can get around this by adding our hostnames directly to your hosts file. Add the following lines to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (the number of spaces between the IP and the name doesn't matter as long as there's at least one space (or tab):

85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk
This info fixes the problem, thx! :P

[barral01]

Dont work for me now.

[iStix]

how can the dns fix be done on a mac?
thanks in advance

+1 on that. Any ideas how to do it on mac?

[Heroo]

thxx

[dreamtracker]

how can the dns fix be done on a mac?
thanks in advance

+1 on that. Any ideas how to do it on mac?

here:



Temporary fix for Mac OS X, it requires some work in the Terminal. You need the admin password for your system for this. Make sure to enter all commands in bold correctly with the proper spaces and capitalization.

1. Open "Terminal" from your Applications / Utilities directory.

2. Type cd /private/etc and hit enter.

3. Time to edit the hosts file, we will use VIM for it, which is a text editor for the console. You also need root privileges to edit the file because it is read only for normal users.
Type sudo vim hosts and hit enter. You will be asked for your admin password, enter it and hit enter, then VIM pops up.

4. You will see the content of the hosts file, first few lines are comments with # in the front, then 3 entries, do NOT touch these. Navigate to the last line with your cursor keys and then to the right till the cursor is behind the localhost entry

5. Now you need VIM to go into edit mode, do this by hitting i

6. VIM is in insert mode now, hit enter for a new line and type
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk

If you want you can add the following lines too, in case you encounter trouble with IRC or the website. Hit enter after each line for a new one
85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk

7. Time to leave edit mode now, do so by hitting the escape key.

8. Back in viewing mode, now you need to save the file. You can do this by typing :w and hitting enter, VIM will tell you something like "hosts (number of lines) written".

9. Now you need to exit VIM. Type :q and hit enter, you will be back at the terminal.

10. Almost done, now you need to tell the OS to use the content of the new hosts file.
Type sudo niload -v -m hosts . < /etc/hosts and hit enter.
You will be asked for the admin password again, after that the hosts file will be parsed.

11. You're done, exit the terminal by typing exit and hit enter. Close the window.

Edit: To remove them again - follow the same steps, in step 6 delete the 3 added lines, then save the file, quit the editor. You can then either run step 10 or wait until your next reboot.

[Shno]

Much thanks for the OS X fix, works perfectly :)

[deuce6000]

From oinks News


We apologize for the continuing DNS problems. You can get around this by adding our hostnames directly to your hosts file. Add the following lines to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (the number of spaces between the IP and the name doesn't matter as long as there's at least one space (or tab):

85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk


Works great just copy and paste it into your hosts file(open hosts file with notepad) Thanks dude.

[iStix]

Thanks for OS X info.. ;)

[juzam1907]

I'm nervous about that

I did everything, I changed my host file like that;

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7670/dgdtl4.th.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dgdtl4.jpg)

and I changed my file's name as hosts(before name:host1) but still I can't access the site with oink.me.uk but direct ip link(http://85.17.40.71/) is working.I don't know how ı can overcome this problem and I would broke my monitor because of my nerve.

[JA]

File -> Save.

[juzam1907]

File -> Save.


What do you mean File->Save.?

and ofcourse I saved new version of hosts file but it doesn't work.

[JA]

File -> Save.


What do you mean File->Save.?

and ofcourse I saved new version of hosts file but it doesn't work.
Sorry, thought you forgot to save the file. Anyhow, can't help you much more, i simply copy and pasted what you have and did file -> Save and it worked.

;)

[kaoblanco]

any idea how to do this on a seedbox now?

Edit /etc/hosts in vim or nano

"nano /etc/hosts"

Nano is much easier to use, IMO.