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(Thanks for daveguy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593881) https://31.184.194.81/ https://31.184.194.81/

• Fuxy 11y ago
  Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does. Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement. I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing. Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server? Edit: I know /etc/hosts does the job it's just lacking if the server changes IP
  • return0 11y ago
    /etc/hosts ?
  • hartator 11y ago
    echo "google.com 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
    • niels_olson 11y ago
      Yeah, I recommend against this particular example :)
      • amelius 11y ago
        Do this on your friends and families computers, and change the world.
    • iainnash 11y ago
      Would need to be www.google.com to be effective, this just breaks the redirect.
    • tejtm 11y ago
      duckduckgo it echo "google.com 54.215.176.19" >> /etc/hosts
    • alwaysdownvoted 11y ago
      There's a couple of comments showing hostname followed by IP address. Are commenters really putting entries in this format into their HOSTS file? And it works? The correct format, at least on BSD UNIX and Windows, is IP address followed by hostname.
  • toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Sibling posts are accurate about hard coding /etc/hosts, although Sci Hub needs to move to IPFS [1]. [1] https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/
    • goodplay 11y ago
      They should partition the papers into fields and sub-fields so that each person could easily host and mirror their field of interest. This has the additional benefit of having the papers locally for easy indexing and searching.
      • toomuchtodo 11y ago
        I agree such meta data should be captured, but if the papers are converted to IPFS, it'll be easier to copy, ship, and then re-serve the data at end points. Think of it as a [sneaker|dark]net CDN enabled by content addressable storage.
    • DarkLinkXXXX 11y ago
      I'd like to point out that Sci-Hub not only stores scientific papers, but it will retrieve official pdf's through an institutions proxy if it can and if necessary. It could perhaps store stuff there, but it could not provide that service there (yet). Until then, torrents of all the files that sci-hub has retrieved (and all files uploaded into libgens scimag section) can be downloaded here. http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/ http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/ Anyone can torrent these then host them on IPFS without sci-hub's involvement. However, I suspect you'll have a hard time getting any duplicity for all of this. It's over 50mil files!
      • toomuchtodo 11y ago
        Thank you so much. My hope is that IPFS can serve as the underlying distributed object storage, and then work up from there to have an indexed distributed search system on top of that (Elasticsearch within a docker container using versioned ES index backups in IPFS? With documents referenced by their IPFS content hash for de-duplication?).
  • dethos 11y ago
    For the locking feature I'm not sure, but there are alternative DNS networks such as https://www.opennicproject.org https://www.opennicproject.org
• daveguy 11y ago
  You're welcome! Thanks for reposting to keep the info active. One thing to add to that: https://www.facebook.com/sci.hub.org https://www.facebook.com/sci.hub.org Their original domain was sci-hub.org, which got shut down a while back. Occasionally they post updated information to the facebook page. Also, @fuxy. You can change your /etc/hosts file on a linux or BSD box to include the line: 31.184.194.81 sci-hub.io That will override the DNS and go straight to the site. Windows has a similar file located here (at least for win7): C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts A perfectly reasonable location for a hosts file.
• oneloop 11y ago
  Guys, I have a question. If it's this simple to put a server into the onion, why are people not doing this with torrent trackers? I'm thinking specifically about thepiratebay.org which is still banned in the UK (at the ISP level, I believe). Then mirrors appear and then the mirrors get banned? Why not just put it into the onion? Put it there once, problem solved.
  • chejazi 11y ago
    Perhaps the primary reason is accessibility. Onion addresses are not easily memorized. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle I believe this inconvenience is minor, however.
    • oneloop 11y ago
      Incidentally, is there any fundamental reason why onion addresses are always so cryptic?
      • bradyd 11y ago
        They are a hash generated from the service's public key.
        • mirimir 11y ago
          No, from its private key! The same key that's used to sign outgoing content, authenticating to the Tor network. Edit: I'm wrong. It's based on the hash of the public key.
          • ikeboy 11y ago
            How can anyone verify a hash of the private key without having it? Anyway, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HiddenServiceNames https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HiddenServ...
• bra-ket 11y ago
  twitter: https://twitter.com/sci_hub https://twitter.com/sci_hub vkontakte: http://vk.com/sci_hub http://vk.com/sci_hub