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Re: "After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North Korea" or is it just BGP Tricks


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0100

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:43:05PM +0000,
 Bacon Zombie <baconzombie () gmail com> wrote 
 a message of 71 lines which said:

But there is a lot of debate on Reddit that they are not really in
North Korea and just doing some BGP trickery:

And ICMP trickery, to send false ICMP replies (with a delay) to
traceroute requests.

I am certain they are not in North Korea. The TCP latency when you
connect with HTTP to thepiratebay.se if < 40 ms, something which you
cannot have from North Korea.


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