The Japanese government crack-down story you mention has been discussed quite a bit here and at Nyaa, but I think the Japanese government or Japanese businesses are not likely to be the cause of this DDoS attack on Nyaa, for two reasons:
1. The attack occurred during a US holiday weekend. 2. There are reports the attack included MAL (My Anime List) and possibly other sites which have little to do with government crack-down targets.
It's all guess work and rumors right now, but it seems more like an anime-hate prank than anything else.
Do you guys have any countermeasure for DDOS attacks?Cause im really worried what will happen when u guys go down you are the last line of defense the entirety of anime rests on your servers.
We of the MY LITTLE PONY ACTION FRONT (MLPAF) believe we have made our point. We continue to demand the carriage of all Japanese vocal cast productions, regardless of country of origin. The script and vocal cast are the true heart of anime, whatever the country of origin of the computer drawings.
Also, we demand the head of Herkz the Heretic. --He never had cutie-marks. He never will.
Comply Nyaa, or next time we'll go all Unicorn on your asses (and mules).
That probably uses too many complicated words for you though, so since i'm a nice person i'll put it simply: The attacker floods the sites server with repeated requests until it's overloaded, making it inaccessible to regular traffic.
While Nyaa Is Currently Down. We Are Setting Up Camp On Anime-Index & Now Kickass ... If you wish to see other groups also partake with the same Torrenting sites we have currently acquired. We suggest you notify them and provide the following link http://tracker.anime-index.org/, so they can set up shop as well.
(Just passing it along in the hopes that it is pertinent information for you to continue to provide their re-encodes here. Thanks for everything!)
LOL! I found my very first comment here at page 2.
It's amazing how this site is still kept clean-looking and quick-loading since then. Thank you for all the hard work!
I'm sorry that even though I use the site very very often, it's only when both Nyaa and HorribleSubs sites are down that I remembered to express my gratitude. Yep, they're both down now. Without AnmeTosho, I'll be quite lost trying to work with my last resort, the not-so-easy-to-navigate TokyoTosho.
Swap4 doesn't perform any compression, it just reverses the byte order every 4 bytes. As such, it's also extremely fast to encode/decode from. Is it causing you any issues? It's just a simple process to obfuscate the data a little.
Any reason why you use Swap4 in your archieves? The "Store" option in 7-zip should be much faster on the server and the clients. Due to videos already being compressed you wont really save space by compressing it again.
they got re-uploaded as batch when most of the old torrents got deleted (you can find the dead nyaa links inside if you search on AT). the ones (single episode) weren't deleted and still on nyaa, are older upload.
they got re-uploaded as batch when most of the old torrents got deleted (you can find the dead nyaa links inside if you search on AT). the ones (single episode) weren't deleted and still on nyaa, are older upload.
That's interesting - and shouldn't be happening. Did you get a reason why the connection was untrusted? What browser/version are you using?
Also, would you be able to post the details of the SSL certificate that you're getting on your end? Assuming that you're using either Firefox or Chrome, go to https://storage.animetosho.org/ then right-click on the page -> View page info For Chrome, select the Connection tab and then click the Certificate information link. For Firefox, select the Security tab, then View Certificate button. After that, post up a screenshot of each tab. Appreciate it if you could do that.
I got the: "This connection is untrusted" message. Added the site to trusted connections now and it works again. I downloaded so many Attachments in the last days, Server-sama was probably like: "Leave me alone!"
they dont allow "re-encodes" they allow different formats of the same thing, like softsubbed mkv and hardsubbed mp4, 480p, 720p, 1080p, re-encoding is a waste of time and is only a way of ruining the animation quality, especially if who re-encoded the file is a noob, and most of the time they are, if you read their rules you would understand: [quote]"Remakes which are utterly bit rate-starved are not allowed. Remakes which reencode video to XviD or worse are not allowed."[/quote]
someone commented on naruto kai episode 2: [quote]"re-encode, edited abridged. all previous torrents were also deleted by moderators."[/quote]
they didnt remove the other episodes because nobody cares enough to report them, and I dont care, so keep doing whatever you like doing, just saying
Yeah, that's definitely a cache thing on your end. The "Current Time" on the left side indicates the time that the server sent you the page, and you'll notice that it's a few days old for the bugged up version. Either your ISP* or browser is caching things incorrectly. If the "?showfull=1" is working for you, then just keep using it really. It doesn't make any difference on our end so I can't help you there. Ctrl+F5 (force refresh) may help as well.
* If your ISP is somehow caching HTTPS content, I'd be very worried, so I'm guessing it's just your browser. If so, using Firefox/Chrome/Opera should bypass the issue, assuming you're willing to switch browser.
Thx, and yes, as there is a "solution", this issue doesn't really bother me. And as another one annoying bug with e-commerce site in my country, it probably affects only me. BTW, here as the screens:
re-encode, edited abridged episodes called Naruto kai episodes are banned and constantly deleted by Nyaa.. many previous torrents were also deleted by moderators. They should NOT be uploaded here as well.
Thanks for the additional information. admin will have his ideas, so I'll just add my thoughts:
The first question is whether this problem is widespread or isolated. I haven't heard any other user comments about the problem you describe, so far. This makes me believe there is probably nothing AT could change to address it. Assuming that, is there anything you could or would want to try at your end:
1. The problem sounds infrequent, and you already have found a way to refresh the AT homepage regardless. So maybe you don't need or will want to make any changes. 2. If you would like to try something, I would recommend trying another browser and seeing if the problem persists. Many of us use FireFox ( https://www.mozilla.org ). There are, in my view, many good reasons to use FireFox and many good reasons to not use Internet Explorer, in terms of privacy, security and functionality.
This time seems to be something alike (I have yet to post the prints). But before not, I tested cleaning all the cache and temp files. The results are exactly the same, though. Ah, I'm currently using IE9 and Win7 Home Premium.
31/08/2014 22:46 — Galaxy_Defenders