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It's fake but his analysis is wrong. TPB is still somewhere in Europe. Otherwise you couldn't have 50ms RTT to thepiratebay.se TCP port 80 from within Europe. I
by tuomasb 14y ago
It's fake but his analysis is wrong. TPB is still somewhere in Europe. Otherwise you couldn't have 50ms RTT to thepiratebay.se TCP port 80 from within Europe.
I explained here how they do it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720
- bradleyjg 14y agoFrom the discussion there it looks like the real host is rrbone UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) Leibnizstr. 8a 44147 Dortmund GERMANY https://www.rrbone.net/ https://www.rrbone.net/
- darklajid 14y agoFor someone that grew up around Dortmund, that went to Dortmund for parties and fun for a dozen years that would make me rather happy.. :)
- runn1ng 14y agoYes, he added a second part https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake-p2 https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-f...
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- peterwwillis 14y agoYes, the speed of light dictates how long it takes data to travel. But that isn't definitive proof that TPB's servers are hosted that close. The easiest thing to do is to put up caching reverse proxies on big providers that respond immediately and only slow down on "dynamic" content, which we all assume to be slower anyway. A more non-conventional approach would be to break the embedded OS of an intermediate router or network device (can you count how many transparent filtering network devices there are between you and a random website?) and have it return false data or provide static NAT to establish connections before they actually reach the destination. The spoofed packets seems the most likely explanation. It's just not the only possibility :-)