ANSWERED Connected to Netherlands when supposed to be Singapore?

[pietro99 2]

I updated to Windows 8.1 a few days ago and I think this started then, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

I am supposed to be connected to Columbae Singapore but according to the website checkmytorrentip.com both utorrent and my browser are connected to The Netherlands xxx.xxx.xx.xxx (not sure if I should post the complete address).

 

Is there any reason why this would be happening please?

[Staff 10018]

Hello!

 

Yes: packets to several trackers are re-routed through the node you observed (thank you for not having published the IP), which is operated by us and properly forwards those packet to the correct destinations.

 

We will soon publish in the web site a menu that will allow you to see "re-routed" destinations for transparency purposes (although the IP addresses of the nodes through which the re-routing occurs will not be publicly revealed).

 

We have implemented this system to bypass trackers IP blacklists, avoid (at least for the re-routed trackers) IP harvesting of our VPN servers exit-IP addresses by hostile entities through torrent trackers querying, and to encrypt torrent trackers queries and replies from the VPN server to the micro-routing node. For consistency, the tracker of checkmytorrentip is "re-routed" as well.

 

Kind regards

[pietro99 2]

Thank you. Life on the internet seems to get more complex every day.