Forget about the whole "piracy vs copyright" debate for a minute ... this is technically fascinating from an Internet engineering standpoint. Z-Library has come back with a new type of "hydra...
Forget about the whole "piracy vs copyright" debate for a minute ... this is technically fascinating from an Internet engineering standpoint.
Z-Library has come back with a new type of "hydra mode", where every single user gets their own domain (2 in fact, one as a backup) which all point to the actual website.
Anyone care to weigh in on how one does that? Acquire (I'm guessing) millions of domains, and then — on demand? — configure, enable and point them at an actual website?
Directing multiple domains and sub-domains to servers seems trivial. Presumably the actual servers are behind a bunch of reverse proxies in a country less co-operative to US law enforcement (they...
Directing multiple domains and sub-domains to servers seems trivial. Presumably the actual servers are behind a bunch of reverse proxies in a country less co-operative to US law enforcement (they way torrent sites do).
Registering millions of domains would be far too costly I think. From what I remember it can take a couple of days for DNS to propagate. So I guess they just maintain a queue of new random domains to register, then after a couple of days, start assigning unique sub-domains to users as needed. If/when domains get taken down, re-assign those users affected to domains fresh off the queue. Rinse and repeat.
Forget about the whole "piracy vs copyright" debate for a minute ... this is technically fascinating from an Internet engineering standpoint.
Z-Library has come back with a new type of "hydra mode", where every single user gets their own domain (2 in fact, one as a backup) which all point to the actual website.
Anyone care to weigh in on how one does that? Acquire (I'm guessing) millions of domains, and then — on demand? — configure, enable and point them at an actual website?
Directing multiple domains and sub-domains to servers seems trivial. Presumably the actual servers are behind a bunch of reverse proxies in a country less co-operative to US law enforcement (they way torrent sites do).
Registering millions of domains would be far too costly I think. From what I remember it can take a couple of days for DNS to propagate. So I guess they just maintain a queue of new random domains to register, then after a couple of days, start assigning unique sub-domains to users as needed. If/when domains get taken down, re-assign those users affected to domains fresh off the queue. Rinse and repeat.