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The site's IP is announced by https://www.blix.com/. It's conceivable that an IBM 5170 is sitting on its side in a colo rack, with a transceiver bridging its Ethernet card directly to the ISP's network connection.

But it seems more likely traffic is being forwarded or even rewritten at Layer 4. I don't think running something like HAProxy in non-caching mode would invalidate the website's claims. Even an IP forwarding solution (eg a GRE tunnel) might have http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ issues.



If http://floppy.museum/files/httpd.bat is up-to-date then the DOS HTTPD is listening on port 82, so there's a middlebox doing something.




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