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No, he means when you open your browser and type "www.piratebay.p2p", some program under the hood will 1) connect to a tracker, 2) get the ip from the tracker i
by dan_netwalker 16y ago
No, he means when you open your browser and type "www.piratebay.p2p", some program under the hood will 1) connect to a tracker, 2) get the ip from the tracker in a similar fashion to what bittorrent does to get seeds and 3) continue with the navigation as always.
By connecting to this tracker, the translation from "www.someplace.com" to 12.13.14.15 (what the machine really understands) is done regardless what the ICANN dns says. No way to redirect to a "this page is closed" server, no web page can be cut off the internet. Check mate.
- randallsquared 16y agoCheck mate. This game is far from over. Filtering web requests based on the requested host is enough to disrupt this, and even SSL requests send cleartext hosts (sadly).
- dan_netwalker 16y agoYou are right, this war is far from over. Just I wasn't considering the whole war, but this battle, this game in particular. We'll see how the next battle starts, and then we'll play our moves the best we can, but this time, in this game to be precise, I think is a check mate. And a speedy one, too. Maybe.