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Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole'

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 11 2020, @02:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:

Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole' * TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay's original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month.

While the site operates as usual on the Tor network, visitors to ThePirateBay.org are welcomed by a Cloudflare error message mentioning that the "connection timed out."

Two weeks ago, a source familiar with the matter informed us that the infamous torrent site faces some technical issues and the admin is taking this opportunity to rewrite some code. After that, we received no updates.

Today, however, something appears to be changing. For the first time in years, the whois record for ThePirateBay.org has been updated. Instead of the domain pointing to Cloudflare's nameservers, it is now linked to the default nameservers of the domain registrar EasyDNS.

In addition, the domain's status code has changed from 'client Transfer Prohibited' to 'ok,' which means that there are no restrictions preventing it from being transferred to a new owner.

At the time of writing, all traffic to ThePirateBay.org is resolving to 127.0.0.1, which is the generic localhost IP-address. This means that the domain name is effectively null routed, with all requests dumped into a local black hole.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:52PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:52PM (#981250) Homepage Journal

    When I try this I get a page:

    What happened?

    The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.
    What can I do?
    If you're a visitor of this website:

    Please try again in a few minutes.
    If you're the owner of this website:

    Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources. Additional troubleshooting information here.
    ,/quote>

    Using dig, I get among other data,

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 104.18.36.27
    thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 104.18.37.27

    That IP number isn't localhost.
    I have no problems pinging it.

    -- hendrik

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