tracker.thepiratebay.org should resolve to 127.0.0.1, and
tracker.thepiratebay.se should not resolve
anywhere.
This is a decision made by the TPB founders due to the legal situation, this
change was done about 1
to 2 years ago, and was made at the same time as they started using
openbittorrent and publicbt instead
as trackers for their torrents (so that they could say that they didn't even
host a tracker).
When it comes to TPB and Malta, the only times I've seen it blocked has been
when I've been connected
via Melita and the traffic was routed through Italy.
When it comes to GO intercepting DNS packets, I find it abysmal of them. On my
home connection I don't
get DNS intercepted(at least not last I checked), but on my business connection
to the office they do
it. I've been in contact with them several times regarding it, since at
*SEVERAL* occasions we've been
experiencing partial downtime (only get replies of about 70% of the questions
asked to the nameserver).
I've been emailing them regarding this, and my last two emails when I've asked
them to either fix the
problem or stop intercepting the traffic has been ignored, so now we have a
Melita connection to the
office instead with GO just working as a backup.
/Victor
On 05/23/2012 10:37 AM, Keith Vassallo wrote:
I personally stopped using GO a long time ago, and can proudly say that my
house has NONE of GO's services... not even a fixed line.
Melita does not have this problem. Yet. Remember that by blocking trackers and
bittorrent, they're not just bowing the IP holders, but more importantly for
them they're hugely reducing the amount of
bandwidth they need.
I can't test this at home, because I'm on Melita, however...
Does GO have domains to point to its DNS servers, or just as IP? In the latter
case you could modify your local hosts file to make the domain resolve to
Google's DNS servers, or OpenDNS or something
similar.
K
On 23 May 2012, at 09:57, Anton Xuereb wrote:
glad to have helped. P.S. Their 25mbit fibre with 1.5mbit upload is
deeeeeeeeliciousss
On 23 May 2012 09:55, Ramon Casha <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I suspect that the nefarious role was the intended effect. Thanks for
telling me about Melita. I'll probably switch everything over pretty soon.
Ramon Casha
On 23 May 2012 09:14, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'v been aware of this setup for quite some time now. Afaik the initial
reason for this setup was that since they bought so many competitors, they
resolved to this tactic instead of having
to contact all their customers to change DNS settings. Ofcourse, this
setup seems to now have taken a more nefarious role.
On 23 May 2012 09:10, Paul Morley <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes that has happen to me a few times,
I think their spam filtering zaps the message but unfortunately it
does not tell the sender the email has been block and and not sent also it
doesn't tell the receiver that the message
was blocked, so he will never know a message was sent in the first
place...!!
On 05/23/2012 06:27 AM, Daniel wrote:
From my experience with Melita....I send some particular emails
with attachments and they finish somewhere in cyperspace....there is NO
acknowledgement that the email has been withheld
(for any medieval reason maybe!!) for the sender and neither to the
receiver!!!
On 23/05/12 06:03, Ramon Casha wrote:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120521/letters/Internet-privacy.420660
Ramon Casha
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