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Re: "After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Mar 5 10:55:40 2013

Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPz7E52H70yrFi+uyQKuA607xN_iD9zDVqMYBvL0gUr-YfpcYg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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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