Please correct me if I’m wrong, but If the “internet goes down”, it’s most likely the fault of DNS tables. No ISP would willingly just shut down their servers. So, how do you prepare for something like this?? Write down the direct address to your most important sites, that way you bypass DNS. Or download your own DNS table that why you don’t have to rely on the DNS servers or DNS tables.
In terminal or cmd.exe, use: NSLookup website.com
Log all your most important website IP’s and keep them somewhere
GAW: IP: 104.21.71.144 IP: 172.67.145.123
EDIT: I believe it’s way more complicated on a non- dot com site. Testing now. I believe you may have to create a custom DNS route/translation or have your own table
2ND EDIT: IMPORTANT! GAW is behind CloudFlair, a DDOS Security type firewall. While this may work for other small websites, it’s likely not going to work on GAW because the IPs above are owned by cloud flare and are then, internally within cloudflare, translated to a secure address. Unless an exception within cloudflare is added, you will likely be unable to access the site using an IP.
Others, smaller websites, would work if you had the IP
Pls see this comment for a solution. Thank you, u/sillBag, u/one_out_of_many & u/LanaForge!
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zg0DM1jc/x/c/4JFoYvz8Wqh
Also
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zg0DM1jc/x/c/4JFoYvzAj6e
Also, this GAW thread from way back:
https://greatawakening.win/p/11Rhd50mJf/simple-ways-to-download-q-posts-/
Or people could've either printed the posts to archive offline or created books like i did.
Fwiw if anyone if worried and wants to quickly order them at cost:
prestophoto.com/akilyoung
Ideally you have your own hosts file with the most important websites already configured.
For Windows:
located in windows\system32\drivers\etc
there contains a file simply named 'hosts'
copy this file to your desktop
edit it with notepad
at the bottom of the file add this one line exactly
172.67.145.123 greatawakening.win
save the file (to your desktop) - ensure that windows does not add a .txt extension to this file. Then drag and drop it into your windows\system32\drivers\etc folder. Yes on the overwrite.
This will allow you to be able to access GAW even if worldwide DNS ceases to exist.
I would not recommend leaving this configured forever, incase GAW changes IP addresses or anything. But knowing how to do it for temporary purposes is a good idea.
For MAC:
open a terminal
type
Type sudo nano /etc/hosts and press Return
Enter your admin password and press Return
Using the "Nano" text editor can be a bit hard.. but follow these simple steps:
Use the Return key to create some space below the existing records
Input the IP address:
172.67.145.123
Press the Tab key
Enter the domain name:
greatawkening.win
Save the file by pressing Ctrl + O
Exit with Ctrl + X
This is a good temporary solution. I would not leave this configured forever in the event GAW changes their IP addresses.
This. We don't know where GAW exists after Cloudflare. That is why these services exist.
Upvote this ^
tempted to downvote for suggesting nano but I won't 🤣
I wanted to suggest vim but I know nobody would be able to quit it 🤣🤣🤣
it's the only way for us old timers 👍
Do you want to even know that I just use gedit...?
hahaha
If I could sticky your comment in this thread, I would. Could you elaborate some more on this please? I’m a Mac user
If you're mac user, you need to open terminal: CMD + Space -> Terminal
put command:
sudo nano /etc/hostsand enter your mac user password
and then add those additional lines: ip-number domain-name
as described above
On mac it's in /etc/hosts as it is on Linux. What we need is a backup DNS server that at least has the important sites attached.
Yep, always save the file. Be a Pedefile lol
Here's a ready made hosts file, it's the same one I got from here, but I added GA.win and protonmail
edit: just realized I should also add authentication.win to it, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sign in (if needed), so I just did and refreshed the link
if anyone already downloaded just add an additional line with:
Can be anywhere but just for neatness sakes add it right above greatawakening.win
NICE!!!! Guys, SEE COMMENT HERE!!
Beautiful, thanks so much!
np :)
Huh, that's true, I guess only the .win owners would be able to supply the real IP.
ah well, nvm then, at least with that hosts file you'd, presumably, have access to 8kun and Gab, so there's that.
How would one get the direct IP? traceroute also only gives me cloudfare
yep.
This is also why I emphasize that CloudFlare de-platformed 8chan and if you visit any website using CloudFlare you are given CloudFlare literally access to the entirely of what you are doing.
I run my own DNS for a reason.
Basically you can run a DNS Caching nameserver yourself and then hard-code or whatever you want really easily. What's nice about that is you don't have to maintain a hosts file on ever computer you have - you can literally point the entire network at the caching nameserver and keep track of everything there.
You can also set per-host rules so say someone in the house hold is trying to access vertain things - you can send them somewhere else based on the MAC address of their computer etc.
Websites as part of a CDN usually don't allow direct IP access. GAW - Cloudflare. Try it.
Yes I tested. More configs will be required. Hopefully the tech mods can work on this. As for dot coms, it works most of the time
Has nothing to do with TLD; this will fail for many dot-coms as well. For GA-win it's because all traffic goes through cloudflare and cloudflare doesn't allow it.
You are correct my friend. Although the concept would still work on many other websites which do not use cloudflare.
Large modern websites are a lot more complicated than just an typing in an ip address. Larger sites are a complex tapestry of various servers, CDNs, load balancers, and more. It's just not 1 IP = 1 site on a .com anymore. source: I do dns shit for dollars
I just screen shotted this in case.
Nah, I think I'll just archive some entertainment and quietly go dark. Just watch It everything unfold.
Yes, but just in case still you may need to access other information like bank accounts and other necessities
Top kek!! 🤣🤣🤣
if dns goes down and stays down wouldn't the providers open up direct IP access?
Direct IP access is always open it’s just people don’t use it because they rather use facebook.com rather than its IP address
No it's not. Cloudflare prohibits this for example, and most sites you'd care about connecting to use cloudflare.
u/PolishBaldEagle : do you ever fucking know what you are even doing ? Clearly you are NOT and luckily you are pointing to cloudflare... Moreover: GA and whole win is on some hosting server right ? Then "bad" news: not only whole win is on those server probably.
u/catsfive can be pissed out and many of you mods too,but there is a forum without cloudflare after your little conflict with evspra. Unfortunatelly it wouldn't last for long in such case too.Because:
If you want to make link to .win by IP I have also "very bad" news for you. Those cloudflare is there for a reason. If you will give exact server ip there is no need of internet shortage to kill .win or GA by DDOS. We are observed by leftist hackers. Hackers not some awakened normies like most of you. They are crazy leftist but those we shall be afraid are competent about technology. And buying a DDOS is cheap,you don't even need to be deep state.
If you wanna let them kill .win or just GA.win please give exact ip on open channel and enjoy DDOS done by cabal or just leftists from Qult_headquaters.
I know most of you are older than 40,but come on ! SUCH ignorance ?!
u/catsfive you want alternative comms after DNS would be down - is that right ?
Most natural option would be matrix channel for emergency situations but I don't know would it work or not. Simply I don't know how many anons are lurking, I cannot even know how many of us are active here so trying to do that would be great "stress test" if we would chose wrong architecture.
1 thing is sure however: STOP looking for GA IP for the God sake !
If the net goes down, based on the fb attack, it won't be dns. The peering points will all be shut off so you won't be able to route anywhere even if you know the IP of the site.
if the records are deleted from the root zones, then you get this when looking for facebook.com:
** server can't find facebook.com: SERVFAIL
No such thing as 'downloading the database', I'm afraid.
How do we bypass DNS if the internet goes down? I'm not familiar with this
You type in a direct IP address of the site you wanna reach
it says 'Direct IP access not allowed'
Yes, we are aware of that. There is a solution in the comments, please check it out. If I could sticky somebody’s comment in this thread I would but can only stick in my own
I'm sorry PolishBaldEagle your information is not very accurate.
Websites can determine who is accessing so it's not as simple as just plugging the IP into a browser and then getting to the website.
A Web Connection has several parts.
Now to go back on this - 8chan was de-platformed by CloudFlare after CloudFlare said "dat 8chan is raycis!" which was a lie. The truth was the attacks on 8chan were so large - CloudFlare was going offline under the stress - and all of their other clients were going down, too. CloudFlare had no choice but to say that they were de-platforming because of racism so that they didn't look like they were bad guys.
Anyway - this is one of the large blaring suspect things about this website. The fact they use CloudFlare. Why not VanwaTech? Why not use what 8kun does? I've asked and cickets.
Until I have an answer it's impossible to trust this platform.
Yes, you’re correct. While it won’t work for this site, it could work for many. I personally don’t trust 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for my DNS requests. Not even 1.1.1.1. I use my VPNs DNS service
I run my own. No reason to rely on someone else.
You wouldn't be able to go directly via IP - even GAW can't be open using only IP. I would suggest to make additional config in hosts file
Please send us a mod mail with a suggestion on how one could add this config
Didn't realize you are a mod... Do NOT add this config to your cloudflare unless you want this site to be DDOS'd to death.
Here's some info from qagg. Basically the same thing about editing your hosts file..
https://www.qagg.news/darkness.php
Oh no! The Internet that runs the world and controls us all might go down. Fuck we might yet be free people.
HUGE Help, thank you!
"internet goes down" can be caused by a number of things. A nuclear attack is not one of them.
To be honest, short of all the ISPs conspiring together, I don't see a way to do it.
I'll wait until it comes back up.
Surely you mean cmd.exe?
Yes, autocorrect lol!!! Typing way too fast!
As a computer retard at least in this specific area this loses me.
I don't have an answer to the Cloudflare question, but this DNS workaround was actually suggested by qagg.news https://qagg.news/darkness.php
Qalerts.app had it up as a notice for a while on their site too. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815083657/https://qalerts.app/
This splains quite a bit..
https://thelibertydaily.com/facebook-com-is-for-sale-as-worldwide-outage-whistleblower-and-massive-user-data-breach-collide-in-perfect-storm/
It could also be deep state DDoS botnets
It's not DDOS — DNS was removed. Likely rogue employee with ICANN