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  • webscoper, on 10/12/2007, -9/+70Here is the traceroute for the lazy ones:

    hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org
  • yoda715, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42Old news. They implemented that after they came back from being shutdown briefly.
  • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2210. Chump
    9. Chumpette
    8. Yours
    7. Up
    6. Pimpmobile
    5. Bite
    4. My
    3. Shiny
    2. Daffodil
    1. Ass
  • yoda715, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Actually, it made front page two months ago.

    http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Piratebay_Returned_To_Its_Base
  • M4v3rIC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&Netnic=whois.arin.net&host=www.thepiratebay.org
    go there, you can see it for yourself, it's the last address on the bottom! so good!
  • scottauth, on 10/12/2007, -11/+22Maybe old news, but it's not like everyone knew about it.

    I usually don't sit at home on Saturday evenings tracerouting websites.
  • translati, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16I love TPB and think this is hilarious. But, this is clearly a shameless blog plug.
  • Ozymandias42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I don't know. Usually, shameless blog plugs just summarize and link to another story. In this case, he was the originator of the story, and linking directly to the pirate bay wouldn't've included instructions to see what the headline was requesting. So it's a blog plug, but it's not quite up there with the shameless ones.
  • Ozymandias42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You don't need to do a whole traceroute. A simple reverse lookup works just fine.
  • tlongren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They set their DNS to resolve to that hostname when they had to take the site offline due to APB pressure. Been that way ever since, and for quite a while now.
  • KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Or for the still lazy ones who want to do it themselves, do this:

    traceroute piratebay.org | tail -1 | cut -d " " -f 3
  • rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Antiquing BOOOM!
  • Ductapemaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2old, but still dugg...I can't get over it.
  • cheez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6you don't have to use network utility on macs, just type traceroute thepiratebay.org in terminal
  • se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@scottauth

    You must be new here.. ;)
  • justhim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome!
  • Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like how on his blog he feels it's necessary to bring up the fact that the farther away a server is the more hops and the higher the ping. Can you believe it!?
  • Sugars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Request timed out :(
  • PktLoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cracking a small smile might be apropriate, "in stitches" seems a little over the top.
  • SP33DFR34K, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5To those who don't get it, the list is Bender's 10 most common words he says.
  • DesolataX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2lol, almost as good as slashdots http headers.
    They stopped that though. Here is a list http://www.servemeweb.com/2006/07/22/futurama-http-headers-in-slashdot/
  • itswoody, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WTF!!!!! This is my post!!!! someone has copied the text from my article and pasted it in to their own blog and digged it... MOFO's!!!

    my digg:
    http://digg.com/software/Piratebay_org_Easter_Egg

    my article:
    http://zapcult.com/2006/08/19/piratebay-easter-egg/
  • AssultMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My God, the oldiness of this.
    But! Tune in tomorrow for the breaking news of "AMAZING POLICE RAID OF PIRATE BAY! AMAZING!"
  • traherom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4"you don't have to use network utility on macs, just type traceroute thepiratebay.org in terminal"

    *Whew* Glad to hear that traceroute isn't a networking utility.
  • motang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is so freaking funny!
  • funbags, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Classic.
  • oslointhesummer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hah! Right as futurama is coming on...
  • MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -2/+1Clasic Bender - I love it!
  • krunchyfrog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Didn't see a thing from Videotron (Quebec, Canada)
  • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Welcome to 2 months ago

    Still funny though
  • heatus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This was shown in an article posted 3 days ago on digg.
    http://digg.com/software/Secrets_of_the_Pirate_Bay

    Still cool though
  • yoda715, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Yep, which is why I'm pushing it as old news so badly (see above). I can't stand people trying to promote their blogs.
  • Filter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0That's great. It goes with the article I saw a couple days ago about the messages that sys admins put in their mail servers.
  • SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8whoops, small error. tracert piratebay.org
  • jkc120, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Dugg since it's a Futurama reference and funny. But TFA was just a joke. This guy has never heard of a PTR record? :)
  • coreyb, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Don't be so pretentious, "old news..." Most likely said with a fake english/valley accent. Not everyone sits around all day waiting for some apocalyptic news to come though for a good laugh.

    bite my shiny... that is really funny.
  • Singular1ty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I only wish I could digg this more than once! BENDER RULES!
  • cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2i saw that a while ago
  • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1To see for yourself use this website and trace piratebay.org
  • sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3this is awesome.

    bite my shiny metal ass
  • fatcat, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3i think most of the people here will get the futurama quote
  • Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5harold ~: traceroute thepiratebay.org
    traceroute to thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
    1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 6.568 ms 0.769 ms 0.712 ms
    2 * * *
    3 gig3-0-1.hstntxtid-rtr2.houston.rr.com (24.28.97.117) 11.451 ms 16.934 ms 16.101 ms
    4 gig12-0-0.hstntxtid-rtr4.houston.rr.com (24.93.34.98) 13.642 ms 11.046 ms 11.699 ms
    5 son1-0-1.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com (24.93.33.217) 25.550 ms 26.393 ms 29.629 ms
    6 4.71.12.17 (4.71.12.17) 19.162 ms 4.79.180.65 (4.79.180.65) 21.465 ms 19.543 ms
    7 ae-2-54.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.97) 21.672 ms ae-2-56.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.161) 21.819 ms ae-2-52.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.33) 29.427 ms
    8 as-0-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.128.109) 124.687 ms ae-1-0.bbr2.London1.Level3.net (212.187.128.57) 125.816 ms as-0-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.128.109) 155.325 ms
    9 ae-21-52.car1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.47) 127.560 ms 127.757 ms ae-11-51.car1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.15) 127.211 ms
    10 ge-5-0-0.ar2.LON3.gblx.net (208.51.239.161) 137.378 ms ge5-3-0-1000M.ar2.LON3.gblx.net (208.50.13.193) 134.376 ms ge-5-0-0.ar2.LON3.gblx.net (208.51.239.161) 134.515 ms
    11 Adamo-Europe-SL.ge-2-0-0.ar1.ARN1.gblx.net (207.138.144.102) 162.144 ms 161.973 ms 161.913 ms
    12 hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146) 165.795 ms 159.928 ms 159.033 ms
    harold ~:


    this is from houston, tx, running on a time warner line.

    this has been on the digg frontpage at least twice. :p
  • hypnotizd, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2That's classic. Dugg!
  • Serendipity, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1lmao!
  • arielpopper, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0It's called [url=http://www.dnsstuff.com/info/revdns.htm]Reverse DNS[/url]. [url=http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=83.140.176.146]This[/url] is the Pirate Bay's.
  • urstwile, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3boomBLAMO! That was really cute. :)
  • SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -32/+3wow thanks jack ass for the spoiler.... it would have been better to link to wikipedia for the people who dont know how to traceroute... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute
    (for windows go into command prompt and type: trancroute piratebay.org)

    also thats not the ONLY easter egg in it. but i realize those with dull minds wont catch it.

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