From oink homepage

2007-06-29 - DNS Problems

We apologise for the continuing DNS problems. You can get around this by adding our hostnames directly to your hosts file. Add the following lines to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (the number of spaces between the IP and the name doesn't matter as long as there's at least one space (or tab):

85.17.40.69     tracker.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.70     irc.oink.me.uk
85.17.40.71     oink.me.uk