alloutmacstoday Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 it's down again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empreality Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 OiNK is Alive! Learn How to AccessWritten by enigmax on July 01, 2007 The hugely popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK.me.uk appears to be offline but it is in fact alive and well. OiNK is suffering from some annoying DNS issues, strangely enough their domain registrar decided to suspend the domain. The good news is that with a little tweak, it’s still possible to access the site. Read on. OiNK A few people have been panicking over the last 48 hours since they can no longer access the OiNK BitTorrent tracker. Understandable perhaps, when one considers the developments in the Netherlands during the last week involving everlasting.nu, Demonoid and Leaseweb. However, they are not down but are experiencing some DNS issues - the mechanism by which easily readable domain names such as OiNK.me.uk are translated to their corresponding IP addresses. In the meantime, it is still possible to access the site by using its IP address and typing it directly into your browsers address bar. The IP address is: 85.17.40.71 Those that are happy to experiment with their Hosts file may edit it and add the following information for continued access to OiNK, it’s tracker and IRC channel. From the OiNK site: “We apologise 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 Hopefully the issues will be fixed soon. - TorrenFreak.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 how do you add the ips to a mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onetrack Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Well this must be whats happening to appzpoint.. its dead too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empreality Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 how do you add the ips to a mac? Here you go sexy: 1. Open Terminal 2. In terminal Window type: sudo pico /etc/hosts 3. Give terminal your Password You now have a file opened in Terminal so we continue. 4. You now see some IP’s at the bottom of the list do add these: 85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk 85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk 85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk 5. Then ctrl and x for exit — then y for confirmation — then return-key. And now you can access the site again. Ps, just drag and drop, instead of re-type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 Great how-to, empreality, thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugmoon Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Due to problems with their DNS, it looks like OiNK is changing their domain name from oink.me.uk to oink.cd Here's the announcement (from their front page): Because of the recent DNS issues, and the undesirable solution to fix them, we are changing the site's name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd. The OiNK.me.uk domain will soon cease to function, and a full changeover will happen shortly. Please update your bookmarks. Please also re-download any torrents you may have in your clients in order to update the tracker address. Torrents downloaded from now on will contain 2 tracker addresses, the new OiNK.cd domain, and the tracker's IP address, which should make any future DNS issues less serious. They will also contain the site's IP address in the torrent comment field, in case of future problems. Sorry about the inconvenience, but we deem the name change necessary for the continuation of the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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