pokerstars network and legality

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max entropy

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Hi everyone!

pokerstars appear to have some IPs and subnet masks listed in advanced network settings, but when I connect to the application, the communication happens with another IP and another subnet mask of the ones listed.

I searched where does belong the not listed IP...It Appears to be Rational Services Ltd,ireland Dublin.

Is this legal?

PS:guess what... bad beats and traps for me are so usual,that makes probability irrational.
 
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Hi everyone!

Pokerstars appear to have some IPs and subnet masks listed in advanced network settings, but when I connect to the application, the communication happens with another IP and another subnet mask of the ones listed.

I searched where does belong the not listed IP...It Appears to be Rational Services Ltd,Ireland Dublin.

Is this legal?

The IP addresses that the client software changes constantly for load balancing. Some clients even use Cloudflare for DDoS protection and those IP addresses do not belong to the poker room client at all.

And by Advanced Network Settings, I am assuming what you are looking at is the DNS Cache where IP addresses are stored to avoid making another DNS loopkup. If it bugs you, try clearing the DNS Cache via the command line
Code:
ipconfig /flushdns

I would not worry about it, or overthink how you are getting from point A to point B.
 
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