Rarbg.com

[#1]

Hi can anyone tell me if Rarbg.com is being blocked.
Cheers

[#2]

DownForMe.org says it's UP !

[#3]

No problem accessing it from here.

[#4]

I can load the site fine, although a traceroute can look suspiciously short, with different traceroute methods giving different results:
[tt]# traceroute -q 1 -N 1 -T -p 80 rarbg.com
traceroute to rarbg.com (185.37.100.119), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.372 ms
2  lo0.11.central11.ptn-bng01.plus.net (195.166.128.229)  18.595 ms
3  irb.11.PTW-CR01.plus.net (84.93.249.17)  19.546 ms
4  te-4-2.car5.London1.Level3.net (217.163.45.249)  191.792 ms
5  core3-te0-9-0-9.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (194.72.31.78)  21.278 ms
6  185.37.100.119 (185.37.100.119)  20.828 ms[/tt]
[tt]# traceroute -q 1 -N 1 -I rarbg.com
traceroute to rarbg.com (185.37.100.119), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.301 ms
2  lo0.11.central11.ptn-bng01.plus.net (195.166.128.229)  19.172 ms
3  irb.11.PTW-CR02.plus.net (84.93.249.18)  19.251 ms
4  195.99.126.182 (195.99.126.182)  20.632 ms
5  core4-te0-2-0-12.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (62.6.201.228)  20.355 ms
6  peer2-xe8-3-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.125)  21.476 ms
7  btuk.ae0-111.cr1.lon1.uk.ipv4.kaiaglobal.com (195.99.126.6)  21.015 ms
8  ae0-113.cr1.ams2.nl.ipv4.kaiaglobal.com (195.13.60.57)  71.676 ms
9  nforce.cr1.ams2.nl.ipv4.kaiaglobal.com (193.34.48.98)  113.405 ms
10  border1.russia.transit.netsaap.com (185.37.101.2)  153.096 ms
11  xe-0-1.edge.romania.netsaap.com (185.37.102.2)  202.932 ms
12  ae0-94.sr.ipv4.bosnia.netsaap.com (185.37.100.2)  238.580 ms
13  router1.sr.ipv4.bosnia.netsaap.com (185.37.100.3)  289.098 ms
14  185.37.100.119 (185.37.100.119)  369.311 ms[/tt]
Did you get a plain page with just the words "site blocked" or similar?

[#5]

I get a similar traceroute -

$ mtr -r -c 10 www.rarbg.com
HOST:                             Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. My-Gateway                    0.0%    10    0.6   0.9   0.6   2.2   0.6
  2. lo0-central10.ptn-ag01.plus.  0.0%    10   35.4  40.4  30.0  61.8  12.4
  3. link-a-central10.ptn-gw01.pl  0.0%    10   29.8  34.9  29.4  61.7   9.9
  4. xe-5-2-0.ptw-cr01.plus.net    0.0%    10   29.4  31.3  28.8  32.8   1.6
  5. te-4-2.car5.London1.Level3.n 20.0%    10  126.5  63.0  30.4 171.5  54.7
  6. Intelquint-level3-1x10G.Amst  0.0%    10   51.2  51.6  46.5  60.3   3.7
  7. nforce.cr1.ams2.nl.ipv4.kaia  0.0%    10   54.1  55.1  47.0  62.6   5.0
  8. border1.russia.transit.netsa  0.0%    10   94.1  92.1  66.2 106.1  11.3
  9. xe-0-1.edge.romania.netsaap.  0.0%    10  113.1 126.9 113.1 140.3  10.0
 10. ae0-94.sr.ipv4.bosnia.netsaa  0.0%    10  170.5 185.4 114.6 213.0  28.4
 11. router1.sr.ipv4.bosnia.netsa 10.0%    10  222.2 230.3 189.3 258.2  20.4
 12. 185.37.100.119               10.0%    10  341.2 331.3 289.8 357.5  23.4

[#6]

I am fairly certain I could access the site earlier, but now I'm getting the "Error – site blocked" page courtesy of BT which typically goes with the short TCP port 80 traceroutes into bt.net.

[#7]

If you're getting the Error - Site Blocked message then the site is being blocked by one of the peers Plusnet use to route their traffic through (BT in this case), and not explicitly by Plusnet.
Plusnet won't do anything about such routing 'anomalies' so the site ends up essentially blocked until the routing tables shift automatically as another routing peer becomes more favourable.
It's working for me at the moment, via pcl-ag01.

[#8]

Quote from: avatastic

If you're getting the Error - Site Blocked message then the site is being blocked by one of the peers Plusnet use to route their traffic through (BT in this case), and not explicitly by Plusnet.

This is of relevance.

[#9]

It's really not.
BT Retail and the other ISPs have been given the court order.
BTnet have not.

[#10]

Given that it's almost certainly the reason the OP is seeing what they are then I'd say it is of relevance.
Point well made though

[#11]

The tactic surely now is to get pirated files on to up to now innocent sites as fast as possible so that the ASA either go after blocking so many sites it becomes ridiculous and there is a backlash, or they have to give up.