All Nyaa URL's (except the homepage) have been wiped from google now, it suggests someone a little more powerful than a couple of disgruntled anime haters are actually behind all this DDOS business and recent downtime.
Yuki admin... Why the folders you delete still there with nothing inside, I think they move to new date when you delete them, I mean why not removing the folder too, the list is getting bigger :P
Easy to miss, but that's a post from 2013. Even more confusing that it got bumped recently. Otherwise, the similarity in dates is probably just a coincidence.
Do you mean today or the first time? MAL's site administrator said they were DDoSed on Sept 4 (concurrent with Nyaa's first attack), that MAL did lots to deal with the attack, and asked the DDoS attacker to open a dialogue with them:
TT is up, Horrible is up (we believe they moved off the Nyaa server during the last outage), MAL is up.
No conclusions to draw, and no specific info yet (that I've seen).
It could be maintenance or fine-tuning recent changes.
================= 15:40
Length of time and comments elsewhere suggest this is another DDoS attack.
TT has been running slow, but not slower now than a few hours ago. -------------------- For those interested in the first DDoS attack on Nyaa, there is an article at a well-known torrent website:
They explore some possibilities, but in brief conclude: "...it seems likely that someone who doesn’t appreciate unofficial anime sites operating smoothly is behind the attack. Who that might be will remain a mystery, at least for now."
Oh okay. The sequence should be fairly similar, except for items that were uploaded during the downtime to TokyoTosho, and the script detected it as a duplicate.
Just the sequence of the listing here and nyaa doesn't match when it just came back up as all the groups started adding releases that were backdated to nyaa's downtime which resulted in a slight confusion. No issues now.
Thanks for the info. Actually linking to Nyaa is a little tricky since the new submissions actually are treated as separate submissions. Fortunately it'll only affect the few entries that were submitted in the past few days though.
Somehow, I feel like celebrating today. Someone took down the main anime torrent site for 6 days (so far), and they only delayed my enjoyment of new anime programs by a few hours at best. Ha!
-My respect to admin for pre-designing a site that can rock with the punches. And my appreciation for all that it takes to run it. -And my thanks to all the other anime fans that made fansubs work, regardless. Some re-routed torrents. Some created new channels of distribution and did other stuff.
The best victory over a DDoS is a yawn.
(No Nyaa chatbox for a few days. That's almost a service.)
How have you evidenced this on these hosts? In particular, Mega, where files are encrypted client side - how would they be able to determine the hash of any particular file?
We're not, and probably won't be unfortunately. The more 'generic' torrent sites don't really sub-categorise - I only want to fetch English translated anime, and exclude RAWs for example.
I'm hoping Nyaa returns to normal in the near future, but I will keep a backup plan in mind just in case anyway.
Thanks to everyone for their alternative source suggestions!
Thanks for the info. I don't think we upload to Filecloud any more though. You said "many file-hosts" - what others apart from FileCloud have you noticed do this?
I save Naruto files on filecloud.io... Ones I didn't change MD5 were deleted after a month. But the ones I changed MD5 are still there after over an year.
12/09/2014 08:36 — Anonymous