A Chinese ISP Momentarily Hijacks the Internet (Again)
Robert McMillan writes on ComputerWorld:
For the second time in two weeks, bad networking information spreading from China has disrupted the Internet.More here.
On Thursday morning, bad routing data from a small Chinese ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China's state-owned China Telecommunications, and then spread around the Internet, affecting Internet service providers such as AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, Qwest Communications and Telefonica.
"There are a large number of ISPs who accepted these routes all over the world," said Martin A. Brown, technical lead at Internet monitoring firm Renesys.
According to Brown, the incident started just before 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday and lasted about 20 minutes. During that time IDC China Telecommunication transmitted bad routing information for between 32,000 and 37,000 networks, redirecting them to IDC China Telecommunication instead of their rightful owners.
posted by Fergie @ 4/08/2010 05:25:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hmm, somewhat technical problems may occur. This error sometimes appear due to technicalities. It should be repaired by the technical support group such what happened here in our ISP.
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