Feedback Technical Grievances

[JoshPlz]

I've been having real issues with getting onto the farms from my home PC. Is this my ISP fucking with the site?

Here's my junk:


CWINDOWS\system32>ping www.kiwifarms.st

Pinging kiwifarms.st [86.107.179.20] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 86.107.179.20: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=48
Reply from 86.107.179.20: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=48
Reply from 86.107.179.20: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=48
Reply from 86.107.179.20: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 86.107.179.20:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 152ms, Average = 151ms

CWINDOWS\system32>tracert www.kiwifarms.st

Tracing route to kiwifarms.st [212.23.222.112]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms 38.62.9.1
3 36 ms 37 ms 36 ms 10.50.0.6
4 50 ms * * 100ge0-78.core2.tor1.he.net [184.104.196.178]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * 147 ms hurricane-ic-360371.ip.twelve99-cust.net [62.115.175.190]
7 * 146 ms 140 ms hurricane-ic-374288.ip.twelve99-cust.net [62.115.181.187]
8 139 ms 138 ms 138 ms meverywhere-sp-z-o-o.e0-2.switch1.waw1.he.net [216.66.93.6]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 140 ms 140 ms 139 ms 212.23.222.112

theres a dns issue with Nordvpn and PIA's US servers. changing the in app dns settings to 8.8.8.8 allows their US servers to connect to .st and .hk. i dont know if that means less opsec protection or not bc im an idiot.

nordsvpn's Poland server connects to the farms with their default dns service without issue.

Some of the problems seem to be DNS related, especially when your pings and traceroutes are coming back healthy (see here for how to do it correctly and interpret the results).

I suspect that windows and different browsers handle DNS and DNS caching in different ways, which may be why it seems so intermittent and random. It's possible that a browser or windows restart is necessary for new DNS server settings to be applied, or the DNS cache to be updated. DNS servers may only sometimes use routes that are blocked. Some browsers may automatically try alternate DNS servers if resolution over the default one fails.
Not sure how exactly it all works, doing a lot of guessing.

For some reason I've had no problems at all today, using my default DNS servers.

 

[Don Yagon]

Looks like direct links to uploads subdomain don't get filtered to the mirror currently used by viewer, e.g. here in the goonclowning spoiler.

 

[Kurt Eichenwald]

Tor keeps timing out on desktop. Someone's desperate to get the site down by the end of the year.

 

[Positron]

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the confetti? I don't mind festivities, and they would not be a problem if you're just browsing KF -- but they do get in the way of making serious edits.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the confetti? I don't mind festivities, and they would not be a problem if you're just browsing KF -- but they do get in the way of making serious edits.

You can go into user settings and pick a dedicated theme. I've been using Biden Blue Dark for years. The holiday overlays used to override your settings but now they don't.

 

[Positron]

You can go into user settings and pick a dedicated theme. I've been using Biden Blue Dark for years. The holiday overlays used to override your settings but now they don't.

Nah doesn't work. Indeed I have kept China Red for as long as the theme existed. I switched to Kawaii and the confetti persist. They are there even with the Stealth theme.

 

[Kosher Salt]

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the confetti? I don't mind festivities, and they would not be a problem if you're just browsing KF -- but they do get in the way of making serious edits.

https://no-cookie.kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/public/junk/confetti.1.9.2.browser.min.js

Adblock the script and that should take care of it.

 

[Creative Username]

I don't have any confetti...

 

[Positron]

https://no-cookie.kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/public/junk/confetti.1.9.2.browser.min.js

Adblock the script and that should take care of it.

This does it. The clearnet version is https://no-cookie.kiwifarms.hk/public/junk/confetti.1.9.2.browser.min.js

 

[Schpoots]

I've been using TOR for the last month or so because the site never loads. Then I turned off my VPN and accidentally noticed it works flawlessly. That's how I discovered a bunch of PIA vpn servers don't work for KF even though the rest of the net functions normally. Chicago, Ohio, Indiana, New York and Atlanta to name a few.

So change your server if the site is fucked kiwi bros.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I turned off my VPN

I don't think using a VPN with Tor is ideal. It can narrow the pool of users to more easily identify you.

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I've been using TOR for the last month or so because the site never loads. Then I turned off my VPN and accidentally noticed it works flawlessly. That's how I discovered a bunch of PIA vpn servers don't work for KF even though the rest of the net functions normally. Chicago, Ohio, Indiana, New York and Atlanta to name a few.

So change your server if the site is fucked kiwi bros.

I am not using Tor currently but I have noticed just today that the PIA VPN doesn't load KF, as soon as I turn it off the site loads fine. Is this more intentional internet destruction to stop people getting here?

 

[AnOminous]

I am not using Tor currently but I have noticed just today that the PIA VPN doesn't load KF, as soon as I turn it off the site loads fine. Is this more intentional internet destruction to stop people getting here?

One possibility is it's a DNS issue. Another is you have MACE on (the anti-adware/malware service). Often we get falsely added to that, which is I believe still a third party blocklist run by some autist who hates us (or possibly just crypto in general) and uses an opt-in cryptominer that hasn't existed in literally years as an excuse.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

First time in several days that I was getting the null routing "Page could not load error" on both the .st and .hk domains, so I'm back on Tor.

I was having some luck trying either or whenever one would hang.

 

[Sneed S. McSneedensen]

I'm having a "tomorrow_at_x" appear in multiple places.

Also, I was only able to post the above images via "Full Image". "Thumbnail" did not function for me (sorry, @Null ).

 

[Null]

It happens if your press back. This has been an issue for seven years. I'm not fixing it.

 

[Sneed S. McSneedensen]

It happens if your press back. This has been an issue for seven years. I'm not fixing it.

I restarted my device and now everything works. Regardless, thanks for the reply, Herr Sneeder.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'm having issues with mullvad VPN. I constantly have to switch locations in order to get .hk to load. This is for desktop, mobile works fine.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

I'm having issues with mullvad VPN. I constantly have to switch locations in order to get .hk to load. This is for desktop, mobile works fine.

Assuming this is still the same issue that's been going on for weeks now it's cogent blackholing KF IPv4s. The routes keep breaking and then coming back up again randomly. Be sure to enable IPv6 in your Mullvad settings. If you get tired of looking for working nodes try Tor over clearnet w/o VPN, that basically achieves the same thing and usually works.

 

[DrNow]

I'm having a weird password issue, I updated my password, and it worked, but it seems my old password still seems to work? Any idea what might be causing this.