Demonoid Faces Major Downtime Once Again

Ernesto
April 28, 2010
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Demonoid is without doubt one of the most famous BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. Unfortunately, it is also the tracker with the worst record when it comes to uptime as every so often the site disappears for months. With the current downtime of more than a day, users are already fearing the worst.

Demonoid is one of the biggest torrent sites around. Now safely hosted to the west of Russia in Ukraine, the site has previously received unwanted attention from several anti-piracy outfits. So, when the site goes offline a lot of people start to think of the worst, especially if there is little or no warning.

Yesterday, Demonoid once again disappeared leaving its users behind with lots of questions and in a mild state of panic. As is often the case, Demonoid’s admins have remained silent and rumors of a hostile intervention have quickly grown. Thus far, however, there is no reason to assume that the downtime is caused by ‘legal’ reasons. It has to be assumed that the site is facing hardware or network problems.

On the positive side, we can report that Demonoid’s trackers appear to be working just fine. This is no guarantee that the site itself will make a quick return though. Last September the site vanished into thin air and although the tracker returned early November, it took until Christmas before the site was fully operational again.

Last year’s downtime was not unique either. Since 2007 the site has been offline for more than 13 months in total, due to all kinds of problems including issues with the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA. Hardware issues and trouble finding a reliable hosting outfit were some of the other explanations that were given in the past.

In a rare interview with Demonoid’s current hosting provider a few months ago we found out that DDoS-attacks and legal issues are unlikely to take the site offline, so we can only guess what the real reason for the ccurrent outage is. The wait has started, once again.

Update: Demonoid is responding (very slow) to some people, and the reason for the downtime seems to be a DDoS attack after all.

Demonoid’s servers (in good shape)

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Verthik

Time to settle in for another 6 month wait…
rae

too bad, i’ve been trying to get onto it since yesterday:(
zachseth

i like demonoids and if i cannot use it as i have in the past.why pay $60 a month for bandwith.may as well go back to $20 and just surf the net.
bob

Wow @ Demonoid’s servers!
dncholas

Yeah same here. I knew something wasn’t right but hard to tell what it is now. I emailed Ernesto asking if he knew anything when I should have just come here 1st because as usual TF is on top of it. Thanks TF :)
gtg

I don’t use Demonoid anymore but this outage struck just as I was checking to see if I had any invites to give to my brother. Arrrrrggggghh.
imot

up for me but sloooow
mojoback

I have to agree with the hardware/network issue theory, they are up, but no bandwidth at all. Hopefully they figure it out soon, and that it isn’t some douchebag attacking them because they have nothing better to do.
drunkard

*getting a beer while waiting* x)
yabbadabba

People in other forums are reporting occasional momentary connections to the web server(s) and that the tracker is back.

I doubt that Demonoid lost the only copy of the software and have to re-write it again (I still don’t get that one).

And it sounds like they are not upping stakes and moving to Elbonia.

Maybe it’s just a few glitches while Demonoid gets re-hosted to MAFIAA servers.
AK

Demenoid better gets its act together ASAP. If there is to be another prolonged down time period I may not return there again!!!!!

what a good alternative folks???(not including Isohunt?!)
silverstreak1244

Been talking to my ISP and they can’t connect at all either let’s just hope it’s nothing serious and they are back soon sorely missed.
anon

It does load but takes ages and is very very slow, hopefully it gets fixed soon.
Anonymous

Demonoid.com… take care!!!
24235426

Demonoid: downtime extraordinaire! Not sure why people are to worried, plus if it never comes back, plenty of great alternatives ;)
Rony

BitTorrent is way too hot to handle right now. I prefer Usenet. It’s fast and secure. Put http://www.unzbin.com into the equation and you can’t fail!
Anonymous

If you don’t like completely mainstream public trackers and don’t have any private tracker accounts, you could try http://www.h33t.com/ during the downtime.
Taylor

I’ve managed to load the site up, hopefully its only a hardware upgrade. The site is VERY slow and only semi functional. It doesn’t display any torrents at all.
p2pfreakk

It’s back again …check !

But let’s see how long it stays ‘up’ ..
may be its time to change their hosting outfit again :)-

DHT is not allowed anymore, so if the tracker also goes down, torrents will be dead before its running again..let’s hope for the best for the best site in the world.

@10 – there are no better ‘public site’ alternative other then TPB !
SonOf Cabe

I always use Demonoid and for the past few weeks I’ve noticed that the “featured torrents” on the home page were not being updated as often as when I first started using it. There were some days it wasn’t updated at all.
?????
unknown

xtremespeeds is down too, anyone know what’s up?
Pirate Dave

I just went up there and couldn’t type in here while trying to connect. ???

Anyway, don’t disconnect Demonoid users–I use DHT (never stopped) and I’m doing over a hundred torrents.
jdbpogo

the site begins to load and about 20% of the home page renders before it locks up. at least thats something. hope its up soon.
Dr. Necessitor

Misleading headline.
p2pfreakk

Down again … Shuckks !!!

Did load up few mins back and now dead again…

Demonoid …pls change ur hosting server :(
unknown

the site isnt loading well, but tracker is working fine.
Raf

PSHH. Dont trip. Its back up
Pizza

demonoid is Up but slow… maybe too many connections
Cide

Just close the damn site and hand off the tracker to somebody else. Good riddance.
BeerPlease

Oh no not again, found out some more info about this here: http://www.answerslog.com
ziggymoth

I clicked a bookmark I had to a particular movie page and its loading very very slowly…it has to be a software issue and Demo will be back in force soon
Demon-para-noid

Yea i acn admit im freaking, anybody know wuts the next best now that demonoid is down again??
JMM

Friends don’t let friends buy SuperMicro servers. Those things fail like crazy, and run way too hot!
navin75

Before they went down they stop takeing donation and foud that little suspious
Jeff

Demonoid appears to be back up again, at least partially.

It is slow to load, though.
Fred

Demonoid should open up (Registration open for all). Allow everyone to download all the files off their server before they go down permanently! It would be a pity if all those files are lost! They can stop further uploads for the time being. SBPL
hola

does that picture look strange to anyone else when you scroll through it
Me

Demonoid … oh well, what do you expect from something coming out of Russia. The Soviet Block guys are the worst at building ANYTHING that works properly!
long live the king

Isn’t it great that THIS time, without a tracker, all demonoid torrents in the wild stop working almost immediately?

Last time – demonoid torrents allowed DHT, so the tracker downtime had minimal effect.

Since demonoid came back online, they’ve disabled DHT on all hosted torrents, so anyone who unfinished torrents were fucked.

Thanks a lot demonoid!
Slow here too…

Looks like it’s back but sloooow as hell. Tracker does work though.
lordi

well am glad to read it wasnt just me i can only see theuser log in & user registration boxes not even a search bar or the demonoid logo pssss…
bibity boo boo baa

Oh Demonoid you little demon you.. and what’s up with silly comments its 2010 I thought people would be more bittorrent savvy by now.

@torrentfreak you are doing a great job and I for one really appreciate your effort.

punker puk muk duckers
grizzly

If there comes the time when demonoid is taken offline ofr any legal reason.
Then i’m sure that none will be left whitout the answer.

Because then riaa,mpaa,**aa,ifpi or whoever have manage that will brag about it in every damn media they can find.
neo

Hey guys, I want to apologize to everyone here for insulting them over the past weeks and acting like an asshole and troll.
It’s just that I hate pirates so much
I guess it all started a few years ago when I discovered I was attracted to men
While searching for German gay porn online, I found a great torrent called “Two Guys, One Cup”
Since my connection was bad it was downloading really slowly. Meanwhile I was getting really exited and couldn’t wait to watch it
It had gotten around 72%, when all of the sudden it stopped and I saw that there were no more seeds!
I was sooooo furious! How could they do this to me? For weeks I would wait for a seed to join in and help me, I would write on forums and comment on the torrent but to no avail!
It was then that my hatred for all pirates was born; and I swore I would not rest until I had trolled all the forums and sites
ho hum

demonoid page loaded fine apart from the the good old green demon just stuck at pointy spear and tail haa
jim

Hey, I love demonoid, but I am curious about something. How does Demonoid make money? They must make money somehow, otherwise they wouldn’t do it…right?
Anonymous

Demonoid’s servers are sexy
Blarg

@neo, Your weird….have a nice day.lol
jim

yo neo, you’re a douche for saying retarded shit, and you’re an insult to the name “neo”. Neo’s are supposed to be awesome, not some dork troll. Change your username STAT. Maybe something like Dutchrutterboy
joe shmo

try ilovetorrent its great and secure and remember to donate.
http://www.ilovetorrents.com
demonoidfan

just saw this on the site

Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

so… that explains that
Dball

The site is BACK UP BABY!!!!
ho hum

ho hum you either like demonoid or not but the bottom line is apart from the piratebay none of the other sites offer rare or dificult to find stuff yes there pirvate sites like cinematik. cinemageddon which iam member but in general demonoid provides well. but i think the days of torrent sites are numbered and hopefully a new means of sharing will turn up quickly and anomously as possible
Anonymous

“Allow everyone to download all the files off their server before they go down permanently! ”

No actual content is stored on their servers, and anyone can use the Demonoid tracker to download from other people. Demonoid’s tracker is public.
Chris

I’ve actually had the site pop-up a few times but it never completes loading… Hopefully thats good news somehow…
vadlak

“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
Anonymous

“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness…”

Maybe they just think they’re being DOS’d because 8 million anxious addicts keep hitting reload every 5 seconds in deperate hope of a “fix”.
hmmisee

Yeah just saw that on there page. Very annoying. Does anyone know who is doing it ? If it is a anti-piracy organization then that is extremely unethical.
triple

I got to the main page, but when I went to login it was slow and the connection failed.
me

Bastards!!! Give me back my Demonoid.
Dan

the problem is that Demonoid is just too damn popular. We need to weed some people out, and eliminate downtime.
OB Viousmann

@#55 hmmisee:

“If it is a anti-piracy organization then (DOSing) is extremely unethical.”

LOL. Are you familiar with the word irony?
Jim

demonoid is back at 9:30 pm eastern
the site says it has been under a denial of service attack
response time is VERY slow
Pac

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding
OB Viousmann

It’s been back longer than that. Got some page loads over an hour ago and I’ve spent an hour of retries trying to get one 15kB .torrent file. Got as far as 42% so far.
ho hum

great its geting fixed i can sleep peacefully knowing that the green demon is ok good night
Hom3r

imo you posted this too quickly. Every site has its downtimes (demonoid is obviously no exception), and just because the site is down for a day doesn’t mean its going to be down for months. The current downtime appears to be caused by network issues or DDoS, both of which are unlikely to cause major downtime.
This post seems to be more suited for freakbits anyway.
Eric Shinn

Really bummed that the site is down. Hopefully nothing bad happens in the near future.
RitchieRich

Demonoid is currently going through a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Hopefully they will be up sometime soon.
chuck

it’s only in moments like these when people start panicking for a new public tracker index…. but in their defense the power of BT is in the numbers, and pub is where it’s (that’s) at….
noid

I did get into the main page it was very slow this is what it said..
———————————
Newspost
Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding
SonOf Cabe

I agree with Dan. WEED OUT THE LEECHER. That will solve many problems. Well they’re at it find out where they live and choke the s&!t out of them.
TheScribe56

The other day a buddy of mine PMd a link to me saying, “you might want to grab this one, you never know when Demonoid is going down again.” Turns out it was three days. With all due respect to Hom3r there is every reason to suspect the downtime will be protracted, since this happens so often. Add to that, the staff will never give honest explanations of what happened, nor will they explain or apologize to the the users who contribute money to them. They’ve had a notice up for weeks that they we’re able to accept donations for the time being, and when your staff is that incompetent, it’s no wonder the board goes down so often and for such long periods of time.
Ratio, please

There should be a minimum RATIO. To ensure all lechers and hit-runs are left out. This will help out so much.
me

There used to be ratio requirements, but they chose to abandon the idea because some peoples stats didn’t update correctly.
Anonymous

If they actually started caring about the ratio and made demonoid private, we might get some where. WEED OUT THE LEECHER!
Anonymous

@72
thanks for the post now wee know a bit more…
anon

Stage 6, Mininova, Shit is this next god help us someone please shit on the goverment.
ATHEiST

“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
Tripcode

A message to all the script kiddies behind this. You wanna play with the big boys? I’ll shut you down, already killed 2 botnets… run and hide because when I get into your systems you will be begging for me to stop.
Anonymous

It was just a bit weird, with btjunkie being down the same day as demonoid….conspiracy theory?
dd

site’s back up, apparently it was/is a denial of service attack
Anonymous

/hugs Tripcode
anonymous

/hug Tripcode
Doink

Demonoid got nuked.

wawawawawa
TinyDancer

Well, I love Demonoid. If you are into ebooks and audio books–there is no better site.
Manny

All Adult Movies@

http://www.cherrytorrents.com
Trelew

I hope that Demonoid can get whatever technical glitch fixed soon. It is one of my preferred sites to go to. A good community and some solid uploads.
Trolololol

It’s back!
a

#90

Read the above comments..its a DDoS attack…
anon

ratios screw over countries that restrict upload rates, in canada if you’re uploading more then 30k/s it becomes hard to load websites. us canadians try to keep ratios high but with never deleting torrents and always leaving utorrent open to upload it’s still a losing battle
me

I’m in Canada, and i can upload at 100/kbps without any strain on my surfing. Sounds like you need a new ISP. :)
Dillington

Can’t any of you hacker-type users find out who’s attacking Demonoid and then do something about it?
Alex

lol, so true Dillington.
Phylos

Still having issues getting a page up here…. looks like the DDOS is continuing….
Wow

There is a lot of stupid in the comments here.
cbmatt

yeah i had a flash come across the screen a bit ago telling of a denial of service attack so we shall see. hopefully it stays up
Anonymous

I wonder if it’s a DDoS attack. Sheesh…
Az

The website states:

Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding
W

This is one long ass DDOS, gotta be some major botnet
Anonymous

The cause of internet instabilities is obvious, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader and MAFIAA spokesman, was quoted as saying by Iranian media and Billboard magazine.

“Many women who do not dress modestly and sites that host torrents lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity, satiate their evil desires to exercise their ‘hard drives’ and spread adultery and music in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes and does really, really bad shit like violating copyrights” he said.

“The gods now bring forth proof of their wrath and totally awesome powers”, he went on to say, “In response to the hideous blaspheme of Monday’s ‘Boobquake’ and to the downloading of copyrighted material, the one-mighty Demonoid torrent site has been brought to its knees by the iron fists of the gods of enforcement and a pair of cable cutters. Be forewarned”, he went on to say, “this is only the beginning!”

Sedighi then led the assembled masses of MAFIAA representatives in chanting “Death to downloaders! Death to downloaders! Death to downloaders!” repeatedly and waving their fists in a very menacing manner.
@103

smoke another one
g6qwerty

Man i hope the site come back up soon.
steven

its definetly a DDOS attack. That must be fuckin big botnet.

Great hacker, thanks for hacking demonoid.
@104

he’s saving it 4 U
endofthaworld

Cyberwarfare!!!!!!!

Lets Nuke whoever is NUKING Demonoid.

I mean what has the cute little imp done to anyone except share tha love!?!

Its time to start the WNW1 (World Net War) Let the hacking begin!!!

Hey, Nostradamus said the end would come after a third world war or something, a great war anyway, this is Little Man versus Big Brother.

And no, Demonoid Issues are not the end of the world, its the beginning of the rest of your life!!! Go out and stretch for a change, really!

“This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end, this is the end of the beginning…”
Ionut

@ neo (#45)

your post made me lol

cheers!
pardeep333

Don’t worry Extratorrent.com,,thepiratebay.org,
ahashare.com…….are available for download…..Enjoy
RottenFruit

But… BitSnoop.com is back! Woot Woot!
dixie

no 47,I also think that maybe Demonoid has run out of money,they have not been able to accept any donations for about the last six months.Another problem they have is that many members could not connect at all,blank page,pages freeze ect,their forums are dominated by this subject,plus a few other problems like the front page not updating ect.I read that they are waiting for Deimos,to instruct them, who I thought had given Demonoid to one of his friends/collegues
Whatever

Dont know why any hacker would do this as there is nothing to be gained from that except being paid by the MAFIAA (conspiracy thought).

A BREIN like statement:
It has to be BREIN followers are doing a DDOS attack on Demonoid.
fredder

5 million people freakin out and constantly checkin on the demon’s status could have the same effect as a dos attack could it not, or at least make it worse? maybe when it goes down the best thing to do is give it 24 to 48 hours bandwidth strain free period, then try again? ya well
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fredder

ie a dos attack is basically an overload of the sites bandwidth capabilities through repeated pointless pings. when we add our nervous constant site checking to the equation it only makes it worse. maybe i have it wrong, that’s how i understand it?
Anonymous

i told you it was down!! crap!!
lee

it’s not Brein they are in Holland and Demonoid in Ukraine,they,Brein will not do anything outside their own country and jurisdiction
Anonymous

xtremespeeds.net went down yesterday as well. :/
Anonymous

Dammit, was just getting into it agsain. At least i can finish the download i started with the tracker i guess.
Anonymous

Omg ppl…just let them do they job. It will come on soon… I hope… :)
Stefing

I wonder who might behind the DDOS attack, some stupid brats trying to make a name for themselves of agents of Big Media?
saxmaster

On a personal note: In the comic strip Li´l Abner there is a character drawn with a cloud over his head, indicating bad luck, misfortune and disaster. I feel like him. Invariably, every time I find a good product, a nice business to trade with or a good site to browse the product is withdrawn, the firm goes bust and the site vanishes. Like Demonoid. Beware, I carry the kiss of death.
ho hum

hmm this dos attack what about this if a lot of demonoid users got infected by some bot net off the demonoid site we all could be the bot net for this dos attack
ho hum

check this out http://www.malwarehelp.org/is-your-pc-part-of-a-zombie-botnet-check-now-2009.html bothunter
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me

Let’s hope that while they’re looking at their code, they’ll also fix whatever bug is blocking users from Germany to access their site (the blank-page-problem-despite-visible-favicon that’s been bugging us for months and months).
ho hum

if your in germany and demonoid is blocked just get a vpn with a ip outside germany and its a open vpn with portforwarding
Dukeinyourmouth

Yeah YEah… there are all these other trackers…… BUT…. nobody does comics like Demonoid. And yesterday was the weekly comic release day…… hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
dncholas

Yes it’s under a denial of service attack from unknown botnet which is anti piracy and/or foreign government sponsored. They are working right now to stop these attacks but may take a few days. At some points the site is accessible but even then extremely slow or just fails to fully load and unusable. All you can really do is setup blocks for repeat attacking IP’s which could take some time if the botnet is large which this one is.
Anonymous

Amazes me how many people up above think they know what they’re talking about. They’re probably the ones hitting refresh within their browsers every five seconds, causing more problems.

The tracker is working fine.
Anonymous Coward

bt is so 2008. Evolution has brought us to a new form of sharing and this form should be obvious with the links and all. I get 2.8MB (yes that’s MB) a second to their servers on a free account. More link and drop sites pop up everyday.
ringwraith

Thanks Ernesto for letting us know. At least I am no longer wondering WTF is going on…
newfie912

yes, seems odd that the trackers are working fine but the web site is not responding. Wouldn’t a Denial of Service Attack take down the trackers too?
Anonymous

Tracker not working either – for me, at the moment.

Tracker Status = hostname not found.

I hope this is a temporary problem.
Mum

Tracker not working either
- for me, at the moment.

Tracker Status = hostname not found.

I hope this is a temporary problem.
lee

hostname not found,got this yesterday,just checked tracker is working
Zep

Pingen naar http://www.demonoid.com [62.149.24.66] met 32 bytes aan gegevens:
Antwoord van 62.149.24.66: bytes=32 tijd=153 ms TTL=53
Antwoord van 62.149.24.66: bytes=32 tijd=76 ms TTL=53
Antwoord van 62.149.24.66: bytes=32 tijd=52 ms TTL=53
Antwoord van 62.149.24.66: bytes=32 tijd=69 ms TTL=53

Ping-statistieken voor 62.149.24.66:
Pakketten: verzonden = 4, ontvangen = 4, verloren = 0
(0% verlies).
Joe

Demoniod is in Canada, half of which is currently under a layer of ice with snow under it. So it is entirely possible that a power outage took the site out yesterday or something along those lines.
LookAtWebsite

From demonoid.com:

“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
nom

LOL at all the people who still using public bittorent trackers.
wtf

joe are you sum redneck?? im in northern quebec incase you ARE a redneck thats in CANADA and we keep snow usually the longest… guess what ITS 15′c OUTSIDE incase you dont know thats SUMMER hot no snow or ice anywhere in site… well except the indoor rinks that is.
Peter

I wouldn’t be surprised about the sources for these DDoS attack.
Darth_yoda

Demonoid should use this service:
http://www.prolexic.com/
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Anonymous
Anonymous

So many people ask what the best alternative is…. but usually no one mentions BTjunkie.com ….. really its the best aside from D.
Anonymous

The tracker is also down. At least for me and since yesturday.
Joesgotflow

So where else can i get Comics from until demoniod comes back up???
VIII

“So where else can i get Comics from until demoniod comes back up”???

Ehh….the shops?
Anonymous

Thanks for the update TF!
bla

Time to report the obvious suspects (mpaa/riaa members) to the cops for computer crime.

let the cops sort out the ddos problem.
Anonymous
Joesgotflow

“So where else can i get Comics from until demoniod comes back up”???

Ehh….the shops?

The shops that are 200+ miles away? thanks what a great idea lol … if they were closer i would I prefer reading them the old school way & not on my Ipad or laptop…

Anyone else know of a site that has digital comics?
dixie

it’s not blocked in Germany,we have several offices and ditribution centers there,when I was there last week I connected without any problems,since then I’ve spoken to a couple of Demonoid members in Germany and they say same thing,it’s got to be part of the problems at Demonoid
Peter Lawson

I LIKE! AGREED!
H3A7533K3R

it’s a shame, But we all know they will return. if any more cash needed to Demonoid to get up sooner let me know by email at H3A7533K3R@HOTMAIL.COM
justin

vertor is nice but needs more traffic
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dickthespic

as of now tracker working normal,everything else extremly slow,lets all be patient.
Moe

@137 Apr 29, 2010 at 16:17 by Joe

Wrong on all 3 counts. Please give the keyboard back to the 6-year-old you grabbed it from so we can talk to someone who has a clue.
meme

dont the kids have better things to do than ddos a torrent site… or wait.. maybe its Hollywood.
palaeo7

@ 17

Yeah, except http://www.h33t.com doesn’t have dick worth DLing
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Anonymous

DDoS has been around a while now and no one can figure out how to stop it?

I dont believe this.
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Anonymous
Anonymous

#159 said “Yeah, except http://www.h33t.com doesn’t have dick worth DLing”

@159 He never said it was a site for your gay pr0n fantasies.
Anonymous

#160 said “DDoS has been around a while now and no one can figure out how to stop it?”

@160 War has been around a while now. Tell me how to stop it.
3v0

I can partially access Demonoid today. It’s very, very slow to come up and only partially loads. I’m going to give it a little time as spamming the site won’t help the issue.

I came across an article on Slyck news yesterday that has a quote from Demonoid’s IRC chat:

“Site is down, tracker is up. The site is down. ETA is unknown. onijin stole the gerbil again. use your imagination as to the reason.”

http://www.slyck.com/story1945_Demonoidcom_is_Down_But_Dont_Worry

Fingers and toes are all crossed.
d4rk

sigh… and i was planning on downloading some more stuff o==(T_T)==o
Fnordd

Damn, and I was looking for a milf in my area!

:-)
Anonymous
mr. canada

to #140
while you in quebec (hardly in canada but i digress) if you had taken a minute to look at a news report(real one) that most of Canada has been in the middle of a winter storm. so i’d say that at least half(if not more) of canada is under snow and ice.
the human toilet

not dead….but very very slow. i just managed to get into my torrent list at demonoid right now…
ito

they had this message on their website today:

Newspost
“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”

It loaded for me but in a half assed kind of way and I managed to see this message.
Fuzzypig

Tracker is running just fine, I am still pulling in data OK, the problem is that people are seeing the main site down and then dropping off the tracker.
skyghost

at my end, demonoid seems to be trying to come alive (could signed in but extremely slow)… we’re all pulling for it! demonoid rules!!!
best 1

Best free Site

http://www.KickassTorrents.com
RES()NANT

Demonoid is a shining star in the world of torrenting. If they are brought down what next? Their’s is a members only torrent site; if they can be taken what does it say about the open sites? Don’t just believe there will be other sites open in the future, you may find none without the continuing support of those still in operation. ckraCerz4ever
Torm

Im sorry, but I hear a lot of people bagging the site or its staff. Most of the people commenting obviously use the site, and wether you donate or not, dont bag the site.

If you seriously have a problem with the downtimes they occasionally have…get off your @rse and go buy your movies, programs, music, comics and such. You must me saving quite a bit getting all your sh*t for free!

I love demonoid. 99% of my time on there is for things I cannot find to buy eg non-mainstream movies that cant even be found on ebay or other purchase sites. I also upload anything that I have that was dificult to find to buy…because I know others would have the same problem.

I will patiently wait for Demonoid to be up and running again, because they truly are the best torrent site around.
Cujo

demonid rules lol
Anonymous

Occasional downtime?

They keep disappearing for months on end.
hmmisee

Currently displaying the daily maintenance page. Possibly fixed ?
Anonymous
Anonymous
internyet

Demonoid is like community theatre–it’s done out of love for the game. May not have the fanciest sets (servers) but the staff do what they can. Say what you will about Demonoid, but no one can deny the quality of the torrents. Other sites torrent sites may be more stable, but they deliver crap mixed in with the good stuff. Demonoid is my homie.

Also, many Demonoid torrents are catalogued through Isohunt, and since their trackers are working, you can still get what you need if you know what you want. Demonoid will rise again.
JUAN

SICK MAN! I WANTED TO DOWNLOAD AN ANIME!!! OHHH GOD!
anyone

I heard it was some punks from torrentleech.org are bragging about being behind the attack
damasc

http://www.h33t.com/ is much better in my oppinion
Jabba the Cat

@ damasc

“http://www.h33t.com/ is much better in my oppinion”

You are entitled to your opinion, I just happen to disagree with it…
*D

^^It’s just your opinion.
*D

meant for “damasc”
Bok

OR you al just have to get into a private tracker like IPTorrents. it rocks.
liquidsnake

well the site is very slow now in the news it says site is under ddos attack lame ddosers
dixie

Simply put there are no other sites that compare to Demonoid and the late departed Mininova,who rumour has it,is about to return in some form,I’ll just wait it should not take much longer
tamiKeen

If everyone remembers when they first got back on-line last year they said they had problems but the person that could sort it was not about. Well maybe He’s/ she’s here now and they are sorting it out to the benefit of all. I can wait
Epic Fail

“guess what ITS 15?c OUTSIDE incase you dont know thats SUMMER hot”

15C is hot? I must be living in Bizarro world then!
Anonymous
A Person

@127 http://comicpirates.info/ has comics
mr X

THE SITE IS BACK UP AND RUNNING

IT WENT DOWN BECAUSE

Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding
tats

i just logged into demonoid,5 min ago.seems its working
ho hum

back up working all good here nice good on them
Phil Simon

confirmed torrentlists mail all going again as off 3am downunder time
Jesus with shaved balls

demonoid is back biaaatch :) :D
oi

still http 500 error in Germany.

And thats from the biggest ISP in this country – German Telekom.

I dont know what isp you use dixie, but for the majority its blocked in Germany (and nobody knows why).
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ho hum

200 oi use a vpn then wo,nt get that http 500 error or try http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html use a proxy free pick country outside germany
amandajh

I was checking to see if any one had any invites to give to me
after Demonoid is fixed

amanda_jo_h@yahoo.com

ty
SMASH-TV

Demonoid is back and working fine!
Alternates

No doubt about it that Demonoid is, by far, one of the best torrent sites. It just needs a revamp…

Ratio limits
Private tracker
Don’t ever open up registrations

Just give them a few hours and it will be back up for good.

Also, I don’t know why only a few people have recommended BTJunkie. Site is the shit.

http://www.btjunkie.org
Anonymous

The Germany problems have been discussed and answered many times in the Demonoid support forums.

The Demonoid tracker is now not responsive.
qwsoft

Yep – glad demonoid is back!
oi

@205 What answers? The fora admins had no clue…just like everyone else.

And thanks for the tips, i know how to use a proxy…but its not the real solution. I just cant understand why somebody blocks a whole country (or a whole isp range).
Anonymous

@207 oi and anyone else blocked by Demonoid

I often wondered why are there so few .de people on Demonoid torrents – now I know.

Here in Canada, we were blocked as a whole country by Demonoid a few years ago. Demonoid was hosted in Canada for a few months and the even stupider and even more useless Canadian version of the RIAA got a court order forcing them to block Canadians (by geo-location). Using a proxy to access the website and d/l the .torrent files was all that was needed. The Demonoid trackers were not blocked (heh,heh), so everything else worked perfectly. So it was just a tiny bit of extra work.

Good luck,

Tschüß !
Patriotic Canadian

@168 mr. canada

In response to your slander of Quebec :Fuck off. I live next door in Ontario and My Canada includes Quebec.

Yes, there was a freak snowstorm in the province of Alberta, aka “Texas North” with oil, redneck cowboys, tar sands, shameful environmental disaster and general waste pit of the planet and dick-all else. Alberta is responsible for getting fascists into power in Canada and holding down the national IQ. It is far away from civilization (thousands of km from here) and only about 1/18th of Canada’s area (You do know that Canada is larger than the US, right?) and patriotically it is almost none of Canada. And only part of Alberta was affected and even that is hardly “under a layer of ice with snow under it”. Here, I’ve been wearing shorts and a t-shirt all week and my air-conditioner is on. To paraphrase Alberta’s no-class former premier Ralph ‘Drunken Dumbass’ Klein when Ontario had a freak snow-storm 15 years ago “LET THE WESTERN BASTARDS FREEZE”.

So please stop trying, you just emphasize over and over your poor math and geography skills and general ignorance.
Anonymous

.
hotbrick

meh….
morons
moviemagik

ok back up lots of seeders and leechers looks good. remember downloading is like sex always use protection
Phil Simon

rracker is back timing out.. site was a little slow once people came back and the tracker dropped out about then too but people are grabbing stuff of me.. best to enable DHT andlocal peer instead while tracker is up and down.. it will find the download in time.
Anonymous

Germany’s ISPs block Demonoid, not the other way around. Probably because of this:

“Germany Forces ISPs to Agree to Web Filtering
The German government and many of the German ISPs signed a “voluntary” agreement to maintain and enforce a website blacklist – a list that will be held in secrecy.”
CRIA & FRIAA

Your IP address has been logged and the police are on their way !
iab

As far as i can tell, demonoid has reduced the overall size of the homepage that shows, as the top loads just fine, but that is definitely a good way to counter a denial of service attack, make it so the server doesn’t actually have to send back as much, of course that still leaves the mystery of who is launching the attack, as for a site like demonoid to be that unresponsive, it takes a MASSIVE number of connections, it was slow enough when demonoid first came back up, when it was very slow, because of the massive number of people browsing the site, and another good way of fighting against a DoS attack? make it so that the computer that receives the info has to respond, or it won’t send anything to that address anymore, as well as accept only 1 connection per ip-address, denying the extra connections, i just hope that the owners of demonoid know about these measures….
CRIA & FRIAA

Your IP address has been logged and the police are on their way ! !
sourire

je ne lit pas l’anglais
helperboi

I have opened the demonoid and it took nearly 1 minutes to open up.
helperboi

The new post says
“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
bloody angry

its a real shame a cultural disaster if these guys go down again where else will we get a nice clean site lets hope theyve just had a massive hardware failure leave them alone you bullies
Phil Simon

some are reporting invalid torrentds when downloading at the moment here is a fix..

if you have trouble downloading torrent file.. try downloading it a a text file (see the 2nd link above in download section) then it should load straight into utorrent 2/201 directly.. change to all files *.* when click add torrent
also some are adding the them to btjunkie dot org engine when its indexed there and shows in searches
as a backup to grabbing the .torrent files

hope that helps

also tracker is still red.. so enable DHT and peer so it find peers via those methods.. being public tracker its not banned those methods
PL Plucker

This is what Demonoid has to say,
“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
Zboy

Time to edit your story guys, just got onto Demonoid and found this enlightening piece of info on the front page –

“Ongoing denial of service attack

There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.
We are currently working on solving the issue.

Thanks for your understanding”
Anonymous

The Pirate Bay is starting to crash as well the Goverment is Launching A Full Attack on the Torrent sites Fucking goverment the Pirate bay is starting to crash slowly
me

#213: “Germany’s ISPs block Demonoid, not the other way around. Probably because of this: (…)”

Working at a German ISP here who’s not part of this agreement (which, btw, is not in effect right now), I can say that this is not the reason.

We are NOT blocking nor filtering Demonoid at all, and I know that our upstream providers (who are not based in Germany) don’t; but still, no joy.

As somebody else said, Demonoid’s favicon IS reachable (when they’re not down for everybody), just not the rest of the site.

Looking at it from here, the Demonoid site admins have probably implemented geo-specific blocking on selected parts of their server(s) for reasons only known by them. Of course, were not available for comments when contacted.

Now, it’s their system, their choice. But locking out a sizable portion of the file sharing community is only harming Demonoid, as it deprives them of a lot of valuable seeders / uploaders.
hmmisee

It’s working now
Anonymous

Working now as noted and they;ve opened up registrations. Kind of a gutsy move right after a DDoS attack.
Phil Simon

all working again and not slow by looks.. also tracker is fully up and green in utorrent unless a new attack happens after this post

still some report torrent files corruptions. see above post how to get around those errors still with site.
Anonymous
oscar

this one is nice http://www.limetorrents.com
Anonymous

@231 – that site is just horrible, if you are going to go around spamming at least make a half decent site first
Helperboi

Hi everyone
Demonoid is back and registration are open.
Go get urself a demonoid account.
http://www.demonoid.com/register.php
Cassandra

Hi people,
Have a look at http://www.tracetorrents.com.
It is a new torrentsite with movies tv shows and porn.
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