China's Net Connectivity Goes Dark, Censorship Tech to Blame? Wednesday Jan 22 2014 14:25 EDT Tipped by FastEddie CNN reports that the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a state-run department, blamed a "malfunction in root servers" for a massive, 8 hour Internet failure that occurred on Tuesday across the giant country. Security analysts quoted by the official Xinhua news agency said this could have been the result of a cyber attack by hackers -- though this has yet to be proven. The New York Times notes that whatever happened, much of China's Internet traffic was instead amusingly routed to a small, 1,700-square-foot house in Cheyenne, Wyoming: quote: The China Internet Network Information Center, a state-run agency that deals with Internet affairs, said it had traced the problem to the country’s domain name system...Those servers, which act as a switchboard for Internet traffic behind China’s Great Firewall, routed traffic from some of China’s most popular sites, including Baidu and Sina, to a block of Internet addresses registered to Sophidea Incorporated, a mysterious company housed on a residential street in Cheyenne, Wyo.
While speculation was originally focused on hackers or cyberattacks, the Times notes that speculation has since shifted to a problem caused by China's massive Internet censorship systems. |
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Steve B
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2014-Jan-22 2:35 pm
Ahhh, China.... | |
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miataman
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2014-Jan-22 3:08 pm
Re: Ahhh, China....Googling of "Sophidea Inc" leads to a great read, having to do with Russian brides in the US. worth the time. | |
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2014-Jan-22 2:54 pm
The problem with having the whole house on one circuit is...... when someone/anyone unscrews the fuse... | |
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Re: The problem with having the whole house on one circuit is...what when joejack on backhoe cuts the cable? | |
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Chinese New yearOr maybe lots of people started their 2+ week country wide holiday a little early? Government jobs tend to be much more liberal about taking extra time off even in the supposed evil places and I'd guess more so when it's the Chinese New Year. | |
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2014-Jan-22 3:36 pm
Ripple effectsVery weird story.
I have to wonder - what happened to all the traffic that might've made it through that endpoint? What about the systems in-between? That seems like an awful lot of potential traffic that probably hit a ton of places en route to its new destination. | |
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Good.."this could have been the result of a cyber attack by hackers"
It's nice to know that engineers in China have to deal with this shit too. I often wonder if Chinese engineers see massive amounts of port scans and sipvicious probes from the US and UK like we see form China and other Asian countries. | |
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Oh MyI bet he blew his monthly data cap! | |
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2014-Jan-22 5:12 pm
I wondered why...I didn't see any failed login attempts to my servers last night...
I suppose this is what happens when you don't use secure BGP... | |
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Aubrey9853
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2014-Jan-22 6:26 pm
...And people in China will finally start to realize the importance of mesh networks. | |
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Fraud101
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2014-Jan-22 6:36 pm
The company where traffic sent specializes creating fradulent corporationsHere is the low down on what kind of businesses were run out of that little house in Wyoming: » www.reuters.com/article/ ··· 20110628 | |
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2014-Jan-22 6:44 pm
Re: The company where traffic sent specializes creating fradulent corporationsYup. You can get away with everything from fraud to income tax evasion, and the only "person" left holding the bag is your "bankrupt" "Corporation." You skate away scott-free. | |
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