[161226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Ridder)
Tue Mar 5 11:13:12 2013
In-Reply-To: <612qirv8teoolhaw1oer40my.1362499797082@email.android.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:12:27 -0600
From: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It was a hoax
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030073/the-pirate-bay-admits-to-north-korean-hosting-hoax.html
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Warren Bailey <
wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
> Seems easy enough to convince North Korea that they should announce my
> prefixes... ;)
>
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> From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
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>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
> Date: 03/05/2013 10:55 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com>
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: "After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From
> North Korea" or is it just BGP Tricks
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>
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:43:05PM +0000,
> Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com> wrote
> a message of 71 lines which said:
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> > But there is a lot of debate on Reddit that they are not really in
> > North Korea and just doing some BGP trickery:
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> 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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