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It's still possible to use Sci-Hub, it's just that DNS queries for it tend to fail. Even knowing the IP address isn't enough, because although that gets you to
by jloughry 9y ago
It's still possible to use Sci-Hub, it's just that DNS queries for it tend to fail. Even knowing the IP address isn't enough, because although that gets you to the familiar Sci-Hub home page, search results always time out.
The trick is to find out the IP address of a DNS server or two that knows about Sci-Hub, and put those in your /etc/resolv.conf file.
Note: They have to come first in the file, before any 'compromised' DNS servers like Google's or your ISP's, that will always report 'sorry, I don't know how to find this "Sci-Hub" you speak of'.
If you're on a Windows machine, do it in Control Panel instead; dig down in Network settings, TCP/IP, Advanced, DNS to find the place to type in new DNS server IP addresses.
Do that, and Sci-Hub works fine. Twitter is a good place to find the latest working IP addresses for their DNS server. Last time I looked, they were 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84.