A Smartass Education

Update 7/6/07: OiNK just decided due to their dns problems to change their url.  Instead of oink.me.uk it is now oink.cd.  The instructions below still apply since they kept the same IP’s.  I have updated it to list those as well.

Ok.  Right now OiNK’s registration shows up as suspended.  This makes it frustrating to get to the world’s greatest private music tracker.  I am not here to explain it, +if you don’t know that’s your problem.  I am just show you how to get to it. 

First to get there:  http://85.17.40.71

Then even getting there won’t make your torrents trackers correct, so you will need to make sure your computer knows how to get there even with fucked up DNS. 

So in Windows go to Start > Run > Type: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts > It will open and ask you what to run it with, choose: Wordpad (or notepad) > If your hosts file is not messed up it will probably be mostly blank except for some comments and then a thing saying 127.0.0.1 localhost

Simply hit enter after this and paste the following in:
85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.71 oink.cd
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.cd
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.cd

Save and exit, then restart torrent program.  Oh if you have stuff in yours hosts file already that you did not put there it is either redirecting to 127.0.0.1 which tends to be done by anti-spyware / advertising software and is ok because it eliminates junk sites.  If it’s anything but you might have been hijacked and I would highly recommend deleting the entries you aren’t familiar with.

For Linux simply type:

echo ‘85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.u
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk’ >> /etc/hosts

echo ‘85.17.40.71 oink.cd
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.cd
85.17.40.70 irc.oink.cd’ >> /etc/hosts