If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

gruez wrote: post #3

knolan wrote: post #2

Maybe I’m being thick, and I apologise, but why not just bookmark tbe IPs?

exactly, this "solution" is vastly over engineered.

It is a joke. It has to be.

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by tehlike » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:02 PM UTC

fatwah wrote: post #4

gruez wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

exactly, this "solution" is vastly over engineered.

It is a joke. It has to be.

The comment is gold: I'm confused, why not just use a HOSTS file to accomplish this?

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by JamesBarney » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:15 PM UTC

knolan wrote: post #2

Maybe I’m being thick, and I apologise, but why not just bookmark tbe IPs?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/933085186614611968

Sci-hub currently does not fully function via IP address.

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:24 PM UTC

OP, in the event you've questions.

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:32 PM UTC

JamesBarney wrote: post #6

knolan wrote: post #2

Maybe I’m being thick, and I apologise, but why not just bookmark tbe IPs?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/933085186614611968 Sci-hub currently does not fully function via IP address.

As noted: it doesn't work.

I've just expanded on why hosts files or other options don't offer the power of DNSMasq:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/7m3uin/meta_if_you...

A fair bit of this also falls out of the fact that DNSMasq is already running, configured, and modularised much as I describe in the original post. The larger part of that describes how to get to the point of dropping in a single script-generated file to provide Sci-Hub access on literally any TLD on the Internet in a fraction of a second, for all managed systems.

Note that not all systems can use hosts files: Android devices and iOS are highly resistant to this. They would have to be individually configured. Using DNSMasq, any device acquiring network leases from the local DHCP server is automagickally configured. "It just works."

The idea occurred to me a few days ago, and I ginned up and tested the solution in about five minutes. It took ten times longer to actually document it.

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by jancsika » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:36 PM UTC

Dear IPFS, Are you a solution to this problem?

Re: If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them?

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Post by Sniffnoy » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 11:37 PM UTC

The simpler solution here is to just put it in your HOSTS file. And you don't really need to put all of them in there; just put in sci-hub.org and use that.