nsane.forums Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites around today, is hosted to the east of Russia in neighboring Ukraine, although relations between the two countries aren’t exactly neighborly at the moment.In the past 24 hours, TorrentFreak received a flurry of reports that users of Demonoid in Russia could no longer access the site. After checking with some of our own Russian contacts and testing via a server located in St Petersburg, we are able to confirm that at least so far, accessing Demonoid is impossible from Russia. Reports suggest the problem started a few hours ago.Traceroutes carried out from several locations across the country to Demonoid’s IP at 62.149.24.66 show that they are all terminating at ColoCall, the biggest data center in Ukraine – just one step away from Demonoid’s servers.TorrentFreak’s tests from both European and Russian IP addresses both routed through the ColoCall IP 62.149.2.108 – the Russian test was blocked at that point while the European one completed perfectly. Tests by a Russian BitTorrent user on our behalf confirmed it was necessary to use a proxy for both the site and the the tracker to gain access.It’s hoped that the blockage is temporary and a technical issue but of course, Demonoid has blocked countries before. TorrentFreak has contacted ColoCall but thus far, we’ve received no response.We’ll update this post when more information comes in.Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SokraT Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 OH!.bad news for team synergy who were uploading game rips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 18, 2009 Administrator Share Posted August 18, 2009 Oh. But a simple proxy or a VPN service is enough for this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Oh well, Demonoid has done this before, so I think they will lift the block after a while :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrVoice Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Last I knew Ukraine was west of Russia . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.