Skronk wrote:

kenoki wrote:so oink and demonoid are dead.... what the hell!???

No, oink got fixed, and Demonoid is just down.

damn, oink still isn't working for me, and neither are the trackers..... what the heck!?

Kenoki, use this url to log in to oink:

http://85.17.40.71/

In order for the torrents to seed, you have to put these into the hosts file:

Go to your hard drive>windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts file

Open it as a text document.

Just copy and paste these into the file, and save it.

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

excellent, thank skronk. am up and running.

Glad to hear it, Kenoki.

I have about 10 invites for indietorrents.com if anyone wants one. PM me with your email address if you want one.

Skronk wrote:Kenoki, use this url to log in to oink:

http://85.17.40.71/

In order for the torrents to seed, you have to put these into the hosts file:

Go to your hard drive>windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts file

Open it as a text document.

Just copy and paste these into the file, and save it.

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

how does this work on a mac?

eephour wrote:

Skronk wrote:Kenoki, use this url to log in to oink:

http://85.17.40.71/

In order for the torrents to seed, you have to put these into the hosts file:

Go to your hard drive>windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts file

Open it as a text document.

Just copy and paste these into the file, and save it.

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

how does this work on a mac?

here's a fix for mac (from oink)... a little more involved than windows but doesn't look too bad.

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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.[/quote]

This post might be a request for a myspleen invite...

rayj wrote:This post might be a request for a myspleen invite...

PM me your email address. If I don't hear from you in a while, I'll invite the email address in your profile.

Many thanks to the Stew!