Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The end of the road.
As of December 1st 2005 Mongo56.org will no-longer exist. I am sorry about this, but after over a month of battling flood attacks and the like it's time to kill the tracker.
The flood play a large part in my decision, but they are by far not the only reason.The number of donations are not covering the server costs, (€35 last month), and I really can't afford to keep supporting the site, there are also many other reasons NONE of which have anything to do with legal threats etc.
During our time in the BitTorrent community, we have really made a differences and a huge impression. We have worked directly with admin and developers from all aspects of the community, for instance we became the first XBNBT based tracker to run with over 100,000 peers, we broke the XBTT record with over 763,000 peers.
But it's time to say goodbye and thank you to everyone who ever graced us with your .torrents. I have had a wonderful time running the site and have loved every minute of it, but now it's just not fun anymore and it should be.
I want to give my personal thanks to the following people who over the last few years really helped make Mongo what it was.
Emma, Hyrle, =Xotic=, Varlock, XTF, Niek, 2Dog, UnSpawn, The_8472, Confused_Fish, Rhomboid, Sloncek and Gert. And many many more I have forgotten.
We have also worked closely with many sites, to name a few;
kerrazy-torrents.net, torrentmind.com, filesoup.co.uk, newtorrents.info, mininova.org, suprnova.org, mybittorrent.com, #VTV and many many more.
As for what the future holds, who knows, I am sure Mongo will come back in some form or another, maybe another huge leap like V1 to V2 was, who knows, but we will no longer be a BitTorrent tracker anymore. For those looking for alternates, just look around, you will soon find a new home, for those wanting code, it's all original XBTT code.
Goodbye and thanks again!
Love it, hate it, remember it!
English_Man
The flood play a large part in my decision, but they are by far not the only reason.The number of donations are not covering the server costs, (€35 last month), and I really can't afford to keep supporting the site, there are also many other reasons NONE of which have anything to do with legal threats etc.
During our time in the BitTorrent community, we have really made a differences and a huge impression. We have worked directly with admin and developers from all aspects of the community, for instance we became the first XBNBT based tracker to run with over 100,000 peers, we broke the XBTT record with over 763,000 peers.
But it's time to say goodbye and thank you to everyone who ever graced us with your .torrents. I have had a wonderful time running the site and have loved every minute of it, but now it's just not fun anymore and it should be.
I want to give my personal thanks to the following people who over the last few years really helped make Mongo what it was.
Emma, Hyrle, =Xotic=, Varlock, XTF, Niek, 2Dog, UnSpawn, The_8472, Confused_Fish, Rhomboid, Sloncek and Gert. And many many more I have forgotten.
We have also worked closely with many sites, to name a few;
kerrazy-torrents.net, torrentmind.com, filesoup.co.uk, newtorrents.info, mininova.org, suprnova.org, mybittorrent.com, #VTV and many many more.
As for what the future holds, who knows, I am sure Mongo will come back in some form or another, maybe another huge leap like V1 to V2 was, who knows, but we will no longer be a BitTorrent tracker anymore. For those looking for alternates, just look around, you will soon find a new home, for those wanting code, it's all original XBTT code.
Goodbye and thanks again!
Love it, hate it, remember it!
English_Man
Saturday, November 19, 2005
IP filtering...
Mongo56.org now filters IP's.
We now have a system in place to deny access to the tracker for selected IP's. The IP's included in the Level #1, Level #2, Level #3 and Dshield block list's are currently being denied. Level #1 will be updated daily.
With the help of Niek (Mininova.org admin) we have a script that can convert the block list to a MySQL database. This is then read by the XBTT tracker (Thanks Olaf), and creates the block list protection. Every connection to the tracker is checked against those IP's in the database and if an IP is identified as being in the database then the connection is closed. The bad IP's receive no data from the tracker.
We are hoping that this action will help reduce the number of fake files that have reportedly been using Mongo56.org as the tracker. This will not fix the problem 100% but it will help.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56 BitTorrent Tracker Team.
P2Punite.net
We now have a system in place to deny access to the tracker for selected IP's. The IP's included in the Level #1, Level #2, Level #3 and Dshield block list's are currently being denied. Level #1 will be updated daily.
With the help of Niek (Mininova.org admin) we have a script that can convert the block list to a MySQL database. This is then read by the XBTT tracker (Thanks Olaf), and creates the block list protection. Every connection to the tracker is checked against those IP's in the database and if an IP is identified as being in the database then the connection is closed. The bad IP's receive no data from the tracker.
We are hoping that this action will help reduce the number of fake files that have reportedly been using Mongo56.org as the tracker. This will not fix the problem 100% but it will help.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56 BitTorrent Tracker Team.
P2Punite.net
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Light @ the end of the tunnel...
Well, things are starting to look up, I think.
I have just updated the tracker code to the latest version of XBTT, the new code offers a feature that allows us to ban IP's from using the tracker, but not the server, this will be really use full for our next step of cracking down on fake files. This is not in effect yet, but I and other BitTorrent community members will work on this later this week.
We have also welcomed 2 new members to our staff, both of whom have a great deal of knowledge about Linux and hosting on a large scale. Between the new recruits and the rest of the staff, we hope to get these problems fixed and the implement precautions to help prevent such things happening again.
The tracker does seem usable at the moment, port 3434 remains offline, but all other ports do seem responsive and all looks ok at the moment. More investigation into port 3434 is underway so don't be surprised if there is some more downtime.
Thanks to everyone who has supported us this far, and we appreciate all your kind words, I don't want to close down the site, and with the help of the old and new staff, I hope we can keep us alive a little longer. If you wish to help, please use the donation link to the right, every little helps, and if we need to purchase more bandwidth again, we will indeed need more donations.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56 BitTorrent Tracker Team.
P2Punite.net
I have just updated the tracker code to the latest version of XBTT, the new code offers a feature that allows us to ban IP's from using the tracker, but not the server, this will be really use full for our next step of cracking down on fake files. This is not in effect yet, but I and other BitTorrent community members will work on this later this week.
We have also welcomed 2 new members to our staff, both of whom have a great deal of knowledge about Linux and hosting on a large scale. Between the new recruits and the rest of the staff, we hope to get these problems fixed and the implement precautions to help prevent such things happening again.
The tracker does seem usable at the moment, port 3434 remains offline, but all other ports do seem responsive and all looks ok at the moment. More investigation into port 3434 is underway so don't be surprised if there is some more downtime.
Thanks to everyone who has supported us this far, and we appreciate all your kind words, I don't want to close down the site, and with the help of the old and new staff, I hope we can keep us alive a little longer. If you wish to help, please use the donation link to the right, every little helps, and if we need to purchase more bandwidth again, we will indeed need more donations.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56 BitTorrent Tracker Team.
P2Punite.net
Thursday, November 10, 2005
The end is NIGH
Hi there. I don't really now what to say, so I will start with the facts.
Mongo56.org has been under attack by unknown IP's for a long time now using port 3434, a public tracker port, with the tracker listening on this port, it renders the tracker useless as the attack consumes all the available bandwidth.
Well, as of the 9th November 2005, an attack has started on another port, at present I don't know which one, nor who is doing this.
So, we are now faced with a very hard decision, do we close down mongo56.org for good, and let the them win, or we just let the attacks happen, and allow maybe 1 in every 100,000 peers connect.
Well, we are going to go for option 2, I will leave the tracker running on all port EXCEPT 3434 until the end of November, if the attacks have stopped and the tracker is once again usable, then mongo56.org will continue, if the attacks have not stopped then we will be forced to close down the site on 1st December 2005.
My personal apologies to all, but my hands are tied, I hope you understand, we are only human after all.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56.org has been under attack by unknown IP's for a long time now using port 3434, a public tracker port, with the tracker listening on this port, it renders the tracker useless as the attack consumes all the available bandwidth.
Well, as of the 9th November 2005, an attack has started on another port, at present I don't know which one, nor who is doing this.
So, we are now faced with a very hard decision, do we close down mongo56.org for good, and let the them win, or we just let the attacks happen, and allow maybe 1 in every 100,000 peers connect.
Well, we are going to go for option 2, I will leave the tracker running on all port EXCEPT 3434 until the end of November, if the attacks have stopped and the tracker is once again usable, then mongo56.org will continue, if the attacks have not stopped then we will be forced to close down the site on 1st December 2005.
My personal apologies to all, but my hands are tied, I hope you understand, we are only human after all.
--
Yours:
English_Man
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Important!
We are still experiencing that mysterious problem with port 3434, which causes connection problems for approximately 350,000 connected peers.
Have no worries - there's a fix!
If you've downloaded a torrent with the announce http://mongo56.org:3434/announce, simply open the torrent up with Maketorrent - second tab "View/Edit Torrent" and change the tracker announce to http://mongo56.org:3535/announce, click save - and the torrent will work anyways. This is also doable in clients that support editing of torrents.
You can also use the command line; For linux;
$btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce /path/to/.torrent
For windows;
>python btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce c:\path\to.torrent
Feel free to spread this message around, to help out all that are having problems!
We're working on it best we can, but during this your torrent is by no means beyond reach, providing you edit it as instructed above and the existing peers stick to it. Meanwhile, when creating a new torrent to be released, use the announce url http://mongo56.org:3535/announce, which is working properly.
Really sorry about this, we're doing all we can to sort this out! //mongo staff
Have no worries - there's a fix!
If you've downloaded a torrent with the announce http://mongo56.org:3434/announce, simply open the torrent up with Maketorrent - second tab "View/Edit Torrent" and change the tracker announce to http://mongo56.org:3535/announce, click save - and the torrent will work anyways. This is also doable in clients that support editing of torrents.
You can also use the command line; For linux;
$btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce /path/to/.torrent
For windows;
>python btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce c:\path\to.torrent
Feel free to spread this message around, to help out all that are having problems!
We're working on it best we can, but during this your torrent is by no means beyond reach, providing you edit it as instructed above and the existing peers stick to it. Meanwhile, when creating a new torrent to be released, use the announce url http://mongo56.org:3535/announce, which is working properly.
Really sorry about this, we're doing all we can to sort this out! //mongo staff
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
It's happening again
Port 3434 is currently offline (again!) due to the continuation of last
week's attacks. The staff is currently working very hard to identify the
individual or group responsible for this. Hang in there, everybody, and
hopefully this will be sorted out shortly!
//emma (mongo56.org public relations)
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Its official....
Mongo56.org v2 can now boast to be the biggest public BitTorrent tracker based on XBTT code. We have just broken the existing record of 763,740 peers.
At the time of writing, we have the following statistics;
Total peers: 774,354
total seeders: 257,869
total leechers: 516,485
Total torrents: 34,328
This is great news, we have taken the record, just a few days after we were under attack from unknown sources. All is working fine now, and with our recent bandwidth upgrade we are looking forward to breaking 1Million peers.
Thanks to everyone who uses Mongo56.org, and thanks for helping to make us one of the major players in the public tracker scene. Also thanks to those of you who have donated, and to those who wish to, please see the links column.
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Yours:
English_Man
Mongo56 BitTorrent Tracker Team.
