The Network

From MetroPipe WIKI

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The Proxies

All servers run the Proxies services:

  • HTTP Proxy (Squid)
  • Socks v4 and v5 Proxy (Dante)

See also:

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Location

  • All servers are physically located outside the USA and its Territories.
  • Servers located in Europe and Asia.
  • Servers may come and go, depending on service quality of the Network Center and bandwidth costs.
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Technical

There are many servers, of which when you connect you may be directed to any random one among the active servers. For those interested the current system uses round-robin DNS to determine the machine a client will connect to.

Linux users can see a list of all possible IP's of currently active backend tunneler servers by typing in a shell: 

[me@mypc me]$ host tunnels.metropipe.net
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.234.1
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.234.2
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.234.3
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.234.4
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.235.5
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.235.6
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.235.7
tunnels.metropipe.net has address 213.239.234.9

Customers connect to the backend servers using client software which creates encrypted tunnels to our proxy services running on these same backend servers. 

Hardware
* 32bit and 64bit Optimized Linux Machines
* 10Mbit and 100Mbit Network Connections

Open Source Software
* SSH Server Software: Openssh http://www.openssh.com/
* HTTP Proxy Sofware: Squid http://www.squid-cache.org/
* SOCKS Proxy Software: Dante http://www.inet.no/dante/
* APACHE/PHP/MYSQL: Lamp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP
* Proxy software logging and cache disabled
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