Verizon FIOS Censorship
javi404
Newbie
Best I can tell, thepiratebay.org is no longer accessible without using a proxy or a vpn. Since they are also a political party doesn't that violate US federal law if this block is intentional? If they blocked that site and you can no longer access that netblock, what else is verizon blocking for your own good? I have verified access from different networks and different providers all over the globe and the only 2 networks that can't access that netblock are verizon and comcast. Netblock not accessable on fios: 194.71.107.0/24 AS39138 Thanks verizon for censoring the internet for us. If I'm going to deal with censorship why not just move to china and find an ISP behind their great firewall.
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Telcoguru
Master - Level 1

Fios is not blocking it. I can access it just fine from my fios connection in NY.

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javi404
Newbie
Yeah it looks like it fixed itself. The strange thing is, there are 2 netblocks that TPB seems to use. One was reachable yesterday over FIOS and the other wasn't http://bgp.he.net/AS51040#_prefixes Working for me this morning.
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smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

It seems Verizon lost the route to Pirate Bay.


Tracing route to thepiratebay.org [194.71.107.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.3.1
2 17 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.41.13.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 P0-0-1-1.BFLONY-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.28] reports: Destination net unreachable.

It is that time of year for network troubles, after all 🙂

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javi404
Newbie
Proof I can hit one of their netblocks, but not the other. http://pastebin.com/awLsaQGY Proof Verizon has a route to the AS advertising both of those net blocks. http://imgur.com/M97zvON Relevant link: http://bgp.he.net/AS51040#_graph4 Proxy in the USA you can browse pirate bay fine, proving there is nothing wrong on the Pirate Bay side of things: http://8la2.com/
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smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

I suspect there's a bit more going on here than simply a block on Verizon's end. The Pirate Bay is working fine for me now, although take note that their entire netblock for me, routes from my area, to NYC, to Europe (London and Amsterdam), back to the US, and right to China.

Here's a trace to thepiratebay.se: http://pastebin.com/CwWfJdcw

Here's a trace to NS4 for The Pirate Bay: http://pastebin.com/z7fHSJmR

We need to search this down based upon the netblock (source) a connection is on, in addition to what AS each netblock routes through. It's intermittent for me, and I'm sure I am on an entirely different netblock besides being under the same AS. The way Verizon handles their load balancing puts enough of a monkey wrench into things.

Also, take note that Hurrican Electric's data is at least a day old at this point. The Internet BGP tables are updating constantly. The chart you linked shows Verizon should have no involvement with Sprint in the path. Yet, why am I hitting Sprint to go from Europe to China?

Without seeing how Verizon has configured their backbone I cannot tell you how the backbone routers are handling the traffic. Also, as I do not have an enterprise connection to Verizon with an AS assigned, I am unable to see the BGP announcements. Lastly without knowing what specific routers are in use (likely Juniper) on Verizon's backbone I have no clue as to how quickly and correct they write the routing tables.

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Hubrisnxs
Legend

i use pirate Bay religiously multiple times on any given day with fios.    Definitely not blocked, you probably have a technical problem.    

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Hubrisnxs
Legend

Wish verizon had a looking Glass like Level 3 and cogent. 

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javi404
Newbie
having a looking glass would eliminate the doubt and probably mean this thread wouldn't exist.
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db909
Contributor - Level 3

Or you could try google!

"Every time TPB becomes inaccessible thousands of people begin to worry that their ISPs have begun blocking or that something awful has happened to their beloved site.

However, the current downtime appears to be a routing issue as the site is still reachable in most parts of the world."

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-goes-down-locally-141126/