hashbase down?

[lucfranken]

As a first time user of Beaker Browser I am trying has base. It reports errors like:

Visiting: https://hashbase.io/

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.14.0

Visiting: dat://fritter.hashbase.io/

Page Not Found
No DNS record found for dat://fritter.hashbase.io

No DNS record found
Try again

Is there any specific setting needed to connect or is it just down as a whole?

edit:

It's actually a quite interesting experience to see a decentralized web. And seeing the importance of the landing page: beaker://start/ which was my starting point. That's the centralized point of failure for new users since I had no idea where to go to.

It directed me to: dat://taravancil.com/explore-the-p2p-web.md and now that page gives the feeling that about 99% of the sites are down because most of them are visibly or invisibly hosted by hashbase.

[parfish]

Confirmed - Down for me too.

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.14.0

[danielpetrica]

got the same problem too. If you need the dat::// link for fritter is dat://9900f9aad4d6e79e0beb1c46333852b99829e4dfcdfa9b690eeeab3c367c1b9a/

It directed me to: dat://taravancil.com/explore-the-p2p-web.md and now that page gives the feeling that about 99% of the sites are down because most of them are visibly or invisibly hosted by hashbase.

We're actually losing decentralization benefits when having only one hashbase-like service. I'm really thinking about starting a second service to offer redundancy for cases like this.

[pfrazee]

Sorry everybody. Yes indeed, we ran out of diskpace during the night and the pager didn't wake me up. Some good that did.

We're actually losing decentralization benefits when having only one hashbase-like service. I'm really thinking about starting a second service to offer redundancy for cases like this.

I agree. Hashbase is open source and self-deployable, see https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase. There's also an easier-to-admin single user program called homebase at https://github.com/beakerbrowser/homebase.

One of the projects on our roadmap is to do a push for more self-hosted homebase/hashbase instances.

[lucfranken]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I strongly like the concept but it seems it needs to be more stable. I get lots of non loading pages, timeouts etc. which make it really hard to just "browse" to discover what's possible.

Even examples like:

No DNS record found for dat://don-marti-dmarti.hashbase.io

Which I got from the https://hashbase.io/ just doesn't load for example. Not sure why, does that mean they are not distributed enough?

[pfrazee]

Some of it is just connection reliability issues (need to improve our hole punching and etc). Some of it is lack of infrastructure (not enough persistent peers). The don-marti-dmarti.hashbase.io seems to be an issue with hashbase- the user put capital letters in the hostname at some point, which isn't getting properly matched.