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Re:The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake by jlgaddis on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:18PM (#5322255)
> WHOIS tells you where an IP is supposed to be located

WHOIS tells you the address of the organization (as they supply it) the IP addresses are allocated to, nothing more.

> BGP determines where the IP is actually located

No, BGP determines the path through the Internet, via various ISPs, that your packets take to get to their destination.

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