OiNK is Alive! Learn How to Access
Written by enigmax on July 01, 2007The 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.
If you don’t have an OiNk account try MP3 Fiesta. They hold nearly 67,000 albums from nearly 17,000 artists. Prices are around the $0.10 mark for single tracks with full albums coming in at roughly $1.00. Tracks are available from 192kbps and they take major credit cards and PayPal
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.
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thanks mate for this info! i was so sure that our favourite site was gone forever!
xx
On Linux the hosts file can be found here: /etc/hosts
in torrentfreak forums some guilds are posted.
What about Mac users?
[quote comment="126716"]What about Mac users?[/quote]
Edit your hosts file on Mac, Linux or Windows
INVITE PLEAZE TOTALNOOB1992@HOTMAIL.COM
[quote]Edit your hosts file on Mac, Linux or Windows[/quote]
Where are they?
NVM. /Wow I’m so dumb…
Edit: Where is /etc ?
Sorry for all of these posts, but I found the file, I added those three lines in it and saved it. But OiNK still doesn’t work.
[quote]This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.[/quote]
I have cookies enabled though.
You guys know invites can’t be sent unless you are on the site.
Has anyone actually gotten this to work and are downloading torrents from OiNK right now?
[quote comment="126777"]You guys know invites can’t be sent unless you are on the site.
Has anyone actually gotten this to work and are downloading torrents from OiNK right now?[/quote]
Yeah I have.
works for me! and people please stop asking for invites and stick to the topic
[quote comment="126779"]works for me! and people please stop asking for invites and stick to the topic[/quote]
Are you using a Mac or PC?
I might just have to go try it on my PC.
Do you think that if I do it form my PC that I can still access the site from my Mac?
More insight into what is going on as well as full information for Mac users who want to edit their hosts files is on: OiNK is down, sort of
For MAC,
slightly different to the other method. but it’s easier and works immidiately.
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
[quote comment="126788"]More insight into what is going on as well as full information for Mac users who want to edit their hosts files is on: OiNK is down, sort of[/quote]
Thanks, works fine!
Temporary fix for Mac users.
“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 .
Thanks!
eddie, thank you.
and thank you TF for letting me know! dugg.
[quote comment="126836"]eddie, thank you.
and thank you TF for letting me know! dugg.[/quote]
You’re welcome ;)
[quote comment="126779"]works for me! and people please stop asking for invites and stick to the topic[/quote]
Removed the spam :)
Just a question.
When the OiNK server is back up. Will this change to the host files cause problems?
[quote comment="126869"]Just a question.
When the OiNK server is back up. Will this change to the host files cause problems?[/quote]
No, none at all.
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