China cried "cyber attack" over Tuesday's massive Internet outage across
the country, but it appears it might have been a case of friendly fire.
One hypothesis that's getting a lot of support is that Chinese censors
flubbed their management of the Great Firewall and accidentally
redirected a massive amount of network traffic to domains they really
wanted to block, triggering a network overload.
The outage -- one of the largest in the history of the Internet -- was caused by a malfunction that blocked access in China to top level domain names such as .com and .net, according to the state-operated China Internet Network Information Center.
The Internet went dark in China on Tuesday. For
some eight hours, more than 618 million Chinese couldn't access
cyberspace. The outage occurred when two-thirds of all Web traffic in
the country was redirected to a single IP address located in the United
States.
The address belongs to Dynamic Internet Technology, a company with
ties to Falun Gong, a spiritual group outlawed in China since 1999 for a
number of alleged sins including "spreading fallacies, hoodwinking
people, inciting and creating disturbances and jeopardizing social
stability."The outage -- one of the largest in the history of the Internet -- was caused by a malfunction that blocked access in China to top level domain names such as .com and .net, according to the state-operated China Internet Network Information Center.
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