Rapidshare.com is Down!!

what's gonna happen now? I got wind of the rumour a month ago and can remember telling people to start downloading quick! i got 50GB in this last few weeks. All i can say now is i told you so...

 

rapidshare.de is still up though?

hmmm.. and i just bought 1 year account

 

Stop creating Rapidshare threads, there's already 10+ in the general section.

Nobody knows what the truth is though.

 

No words

 

Thank god no more people selling rapid share accounts on this forum anymore.

 

Any other news?

 

The "official" word is that the downtime is said to have been caused by a server overload.

Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has reportedly commented on this issue - "There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)"

Source from other forum.

 

All these articles are fake..

 

Rapidshare is not working at the moment, thats true, but I will like to add something in original post of SJNez46, i think he took the text from wikipedia. There the date mentioned is "19 January 2007", not 2008.
you can see here



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidshare

 

Dammit, i was in the middle of downloading something

 

Hello everyone,
Recently a fix for Rapidshare has been created here it is:

Download

http://www.uploadline.com/files/5624845/hosts.zip.html

Extract Then paste it to

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\



Edit:
Need Visual confirmation?
Here:

 

Explanation:

The fix really does work. Very simple. FACTUAL INFO: The errors that Rapidshare are currently experiencing are DNS errors (FACT!). In layman's terms: The domain rapidshare.com is not pointing (forwarding) to the IP 80.239.151.250. This is a DNS issue. It means that the rapidshare site is up (with all files!), but rapidshare.com domain name is not! The hosts file that goes into network drivers is perfectly safe and basically tells Windows to point you to the IP's of rapidshare servers, NOT the domains - example of the first few lines of the file below:

simple and effective. I am currently downloading from RS at normal speed!

Okay folks - To clear this all up. This is 100% a DNS error! There is NO error with the RS servers, it is a DNS error! This means that the domain (rapidshare.com) is not correctly pointing to the servers. The servers are up! The problem lies between the route from domain to server, and there is NO problem with the servers!

The site works by I.P (80.239.151.250/), but doesn't display properly because it tries to call css files and images from rapidshare.com (which is not pointing correctly to 80.239.151.250). The hosts file updates windows - telling it to forward rapidshare.com, rs0cg.rapidshare.com, kvm5.rapidshare.com and all the other rapidshare domains to their IP's (the currently responding servers).

If you have a mac, you can try downloading your file by finding the server where it is hosted, e.g. rs59cg.rapidshare.com/files/84419475/numb3rs.412.hdtv-lol.part2.rar and look in the hosts file. We look in the hosts file for the server rs59cg.rapidshare.com, and find it's IP is 82.129.39.60. Then try 82.129.39.60/files/84419475/numb3rs.412.hdtv-lol.part2.rar. That is a mac fix (more complex, but it works - TESTED).

 

Thanks noyouhangup for the explanation!

 

Rapidshare is down at the moment for me
Here i have wrote about it in my blog

Rapidshare Down?

 

Has anybody even bothered using the fix i found? I have used it and it works please someone confirm the same so people can use it.

 

i am trying to use it but the link is taking too long

 

you have same timezone as me

 

http://www.techshout.com/internet/2008/19/rapidsharecom-shut-down/

Also mentions that its a DNS issue

 

http://www.dl4all.com/other/4260-rapidshare.com-down.html

Code (markup):

Rapidshare.com Down ?!

As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare’s servers appear to be offline. There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has commented on this issue - “There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)”

You can still view the site via IP - 80.239.151.250