puraiuddo:

FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it’s a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out “www.fanfiction.net”.

Please share so people stop panicking.

Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured.

if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:

[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM
NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM
NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM
NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET
NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET
NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]

If you then do a DNS lookup for www.fanfiction.net it hits those constellix.com nameservers and sends you to www.fanfiction.net.cdn.cloudflare.net:

This is perfectly normal in cloudflare enterprise. The issue is the hosting company didn’t set up a redirect from fanfiction.net to www.fanfiction.net

This is NOT DNS spoofing. There is NO malicious party. It’s just a simple misconfiguration.

Hanlion’s razor at work.