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Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems

Posted by timothy on from the ok-that's-your-story dept.

MagusSlurpy writes "Far from blocking The Pirate Bay, Comcast was just one of several ISPs on which TPB was unreachable today. Comcast reached out to the torrent site, and its engineers provided technical support, eventually determining that the connectivity issues stemmed from a reverse path filtering issue at an intermediate ISP, Serious Tubes Networks."

3 of 237 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I'm confused. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No.

  2. Re:Seriously? by jaxtherat · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Serious Tubes Networks"? What is it, an ISP run by /b/tards?

    Looks that way! http://serioustubes.org/

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  3. Re:A whole food chain of idiots. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Informative

    TPB was not down outside of Comcast land, initially. For several hours when the initial reports were being published online, nobody could reach TPB from Comcast, but they could useing a proxy or VPN and those on other networks could reach it. It wasn't until hours later that the same behavior started to appear on other networks. In light of those circumstances and prior Comcast behavior, it's not entirely irrational that people started to question if they were intentionally blocking them.

    So, no, what would have happened in your example is that someone with Comcast would have tried to reach TPB and failed. Then they'd ping it and fail. Then they'd login via another network and ping it and it would work.