Face it: Sony's backed you into a corner. You
can't play PS3 online without downloading the 3.21 firmware update, but if you download, your precious
'Other OS' is forfeit -- and there may be
side effects. You could wait it out, hoping
Geohot comes through with a workaround. You could even
sue Sony for a refund if you live in Europe. Or, if you're not terribly worried about the security of your PSN account and personal information, you could instead input just
ten digits into your PS3 and magically bypass the entire issue. Though technically minded individuals have been skirting Sony's firmware checks for years now using private proxies, homebrew developer Aaron Lindsay decided to set up a public server at 67.202.81.137, which allows anyone to piggyback on his success in mere seconds -- we tried it ourselves, and it worked like a charm. By doing so, you run the risk of giving Aaron all your credentials... but if the odd identity theft doesn't break your stride, you can jump right back into that
Uncharted 2 session by entering the above number into Internet Connection Settings > DNS Setting > Primary DNS.
Update: As of April 13, the proxy DNS trick no longer works. We're not sure why, but considering how long the hacking community holds a grudge, we expect a workaround in due time.
posted April 9th 2010 9:38PM
good thing i didnt upgrade, in your face Sony!
PS3 is better than that stupid frying chip called Xbox 360. i had an xbox 360 and turned 360 degrees and walked away
@jdm28690
one time, I turned 180° and walked away from my 360. it was amazing because I was facing the opposite direction I started from. you should try it. dumbass.
@jdm28690
Soooo, you turned around in a circle and walked in to the XBOX?
@Xent
coming soon to a PSN network near you, banned ps3 consoles. I thought it would never happen, but it looks like this might be an option for sony in the future. In much the same way MS has been happily banning consoles for years now
@FNG Troll'd
@A25i
no he did a little spin and then walked past the xbox and then away from it
@jdm28690 Wrong, its, "i had an xbox 360 and turned 360 degrees and moonwalked away."
@jdm28690
Obvious troll is obvious
@FNG Or perhaps you should know your memes, dumbass.
@FNG someone hasn't heard of an "internet meme"
Seriously, who's this desperate to run Linux on their PS3? Any computer, laptop, netbook, phone - hell most new fridges and toasters can run Linux. Who really needs to run Linux on their PS3 - for what to run a N64 emulater on the PS3?
@Hardcore1 PS3 = faster than most computers*, laptops*, netbooks*, phones*, fridges*, and toasters*.
* Though it has less memory.
@Hardcore1 To run DOOM, of course!
Wait a second...
@Hardcore1
Since when can you get a "computer, laptop, netbook, phone" with an IBM CELL processor?
@Hardcore1 Well, considering I recall a few places making @home farms with PS3s, that might legitimately piss off some people....
@Dafrety You're telling me you know how to program for the Cell Processor? What is it you are doing on your PS3 at home - are you a scientist who needs to write a new protein folding algorithm or do you need to simulate nuclear weapons?
@Velorium http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/09/20/1718242/Folding--Home-Petaflop-Barrier-Crossed
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/10/31/2144200/PS3-Helps-FoldingHome-Reach-World-Record-Status
@Hardcore1
Funny you ask, my school even had a course on programming for the IBM Cell for efficient multi-threading
Next term they are switching to nVIDIA CUDA
@Hardcore1
Nope. I use it to transcode video. It also helped me out in the pinch where my motherboard fried awhile ago.
@germanic
Yeah... no. For general purpose computing, my 3.5-year-old Core 2 Duo e6600 will destroy the Cell. For FLOPS my 2-year-old Radeon HD 4850 will destroy the Cell. And I have 4GB of RAM, not 256MB. A computer of equivalent power is something like $350 these days.
@Hardcore1
Not the issue. The issue is Sony should not be removing features from my PS3 that I already *bought*. I don't care what feature it is.
I'll be bypassing this firmware any way I can. And any that come after it unless they restore this feature.
Sony's creating a bunch of outlaws out of previously 100% legit users.
@Hardcore1 The US Air Force
http://kotaku.com/5422179/playstation-3-cluster-or-skynet
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/12/ps3skynet.jpg
@Hardcore1 I do...
@MrDiSante nice one... comparing a video card to a processor is always a good way to prove a point ;)
@Hardcore1
for whatever the hell we want. That's why we purchased it. I could have waited a couple of months and purchased the slim but I purchased an older model instead. In hind sight I was very happy with my decision when I found out the slim wouldn't have the Other OS option.
Looks like I just got OWNED by Sony. But how can they repossess a technical feature they had already sold us. I can't really believe this is legal in any way. I little too late for me but thanks guys.
@MrDiSante
If you want something with the same graphics or better this is true.
@smallj
It isn't a spell checker either.
@smallj
the ipad does not do it all!!! Don't put the ps3 in that same class. CFW FTW!!!!!
i first read: bypass your firmware in 3.21 seconds
quick witted ^^
@creepin
If you're a fast typer that might be possible.
@cell128 thats what im saying it isnt some piece of crap that u need to put linux on its awesome the way they built it
In before PS3 botnet.
Running Linux on PS3 is an exercise in tedium to say the least. I'm sorry to everyone who used the Other OS feature and have since had to forfeit (all three of you), but I thinks it's time to let this go. Shouldn't we be championing the BC cause? Pick your battles, people.
@infinitii
People don't care about linux, they care about the eventual CFW because everyone is a pirate.
@infinitii : "Shouldn't we be championing the BC cause?"
This *is* championing the BC cause. What do you think will be the next feature to remove? Sony even has a direct financial incentive to remove BC from the units that have it: to make you buy an extra PS2.
Good thing psn is free or I would be worried
@markolic for now... you clearly haven't seen Sony's plans yet.. your precious crossgame-chat will likely be part of the paid service, not the free one...
For the next firmware Sony will remove Internet Settings. 3 years from now, we'll only have a 'play game' and 'play movie' button on the XMB, or would that get a name change too?
@Psyg Wow you just made me soo tired... no go on, really.
@Psyg
Actually they'll just have a splash screen of the PS3 logo, since the play games and watch movies options will open up the possibilities to play pirated games and movies.
@freakdiablo Not even that, I bet. We'll just have a black screen until you insert something. And then we'll have lockout chips and everything else built into our storage medium.
... Have fun with the flashing screens, NES 2.0.
well I don't need to worry..I have a ps3 slim...
@TheSunman89 Right, so the Other OS option was never available to you anyways! HAHA!
I don't see how we're "giving Aaron all our credentials" by doing this. Isn't his DNS server just simply redirecting us to his own text file which is telling our PS3s that our firmware is up to date instead of going to Sony's text file which says we should have firmware 3.21? So can someone please explain to me how exactly I would be giving information away to him? Because I thought DNS servers merely just tell us where to go (basically) and no information is really passed through them. Thanks.
@jay1199
Yeah, unless the PS3 has a habit of of sending all your credentials to DNS servers, this isn't much of a security risk. The worst he could do is monitor what sites you visit with the PS3's browser, and even then he'd only be able to tie it to an IP address.
@jay1199 DNS controls all). The attack method used is called a man-in-the-middle attack, which is simple if you can control where unencrypted data gets sent to (or if non-valid certificates are accepted).
Although what information the PS3 sends out, I have no idea.
Thanks for the replies.
@DWells55 Yeah, that's what my thinking is as well.
@YuriTenshi I see what you're saying. So basically, as long as this guy sets his DNS server to actually send us to the PSN servers (and not somewhere else where he can grab our information) and Sony encrypts the username, password, etc. then it should be secure? I mean, I know there isn't really such thing as 100% hacker-proof security when you're dealing with the internet and something like this, but as long as those criteria are met, it should be fairly secure, right?
@jay1199 Right, and it's fairly easy to prove whether that's happening or not. Even if it were, the important Sony traffic is encrypted and, unless Sony failed basic network security guidelines like failing to verify certificates - though I wouldn't be surprised if they did, it's not easy to get much personal info out of that. Tricky things like grabbing other site passwords that aren't so secure from people who use this fix and the web browser could technically happen...
Realistically, I'm not going to do that to thousands of people. And if you don't trust me, don't use it. I like to think I'm a reputable person though :)
There are plenty of places on the net that explain how to set up something similar at home if you like, including some posts in the source thread on RVLution.
P.S. It's cool to be an Engadget tag :D
@AerialX Oh cool, so you're the guy who set this up? I was actually reading through the posts on RVLution and, yeah, I think you're a reputable person so I trust you with this. In fact, I'm using it right now. I don't really use the PS3 browser so the only info I would be sending is my PSN username and password and, like you said, unless Sony failed basic network security guidelines, everything should be encrypted and safe (not that I think you'd be doing anything bad with my info anyway). Oh, and thanks for doing this! I appreciate it!