DNS Problem Brings Great Firewall of China Abroad

[JMcEntegart]

Security experts around the globe are currently trying to unravel a mysterious networking error that saw Web traffic to sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube rerouted to Chinese servers.

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[starhoof]

And this is how Google war I began

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]starhoof[/nom]And this is how Google war I began[/citation]
what? lol

This doesn't surprise me really...

 

[Guest]

Just another display of Chinese arrogance and attacks against US companies. I hope this is a wake up call to all those who think doing business in China is a good idea. Maybe we ought to think about doing business in India,Thailand,Philippines or even again in the USA. What is funny to me is American companies are moving to China to take advantage of the reduced cost but Chinese companies are starting to build factories in the USA to promote their products. Seems like a contradiction. If Chinese companies can move here and manufacture their products in the USA why can't US companies do the same? The world needs to step up to the China threat and start taking it seriously!

 

[JohnnyLucky]

If I'm not mistaken this isn't the first time for strange rerouting.

 

[rollerdisco]

[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]If I'm not mistaken this isn't the first time for strange rerouting.[/citation]
I think your right, they were probably hacked too.

 

[ikefu]

We need a virus that reroutes China's traffic to US servers.

Oh the horror when the Chinese people will be free to surf youtube and watch videos of Lolcatz! Chinese stability will be doomed!!!

 

[Gulli]

Meanwhile our politicians (American, European and Down Under alike) are still addicted to kissing Chinese butt...

 

[Tomtompiper]

MMMMMM... Chinese butt. Lolllllllllll......

 

[Pei-chen]

LOL, another Jane's best.

BTW, did you guys understand the article? Outside ISPs misrouted their traffic to China, not the other way around. When you log on to your ISP in the US, you don’t automatically end up in China. Your ISP has to route your connection to China first.

 

[digiex]

It seems that the world wide web has a life of its own, or it it really evolving into a new type of life form.

 

[IncinX]

On March 26, 2010 SkyNet became self aware. It started without warning and disrupted world wide communications. This was but the first wave in a series of attacks.

 

[CTT]

pei-chen, DNS cache poisoning, think is what its called, someone submits updated DNS entries with incorrect addresses to redirect traffic. Not out of the realm of reality based on what China has already hacked, to think they could have done something like this.

 

[viewwin]

Maybe we need jumpers or some type of physical switch on routers to adjust settings.

 

[Von Death]

[citation][nom]starhoof[/nom]And this is how Google war I began[/citation]

Has Google really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[figgus]

[citation][nom]von death[/nom]Has Google really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?[/citation]

Say what?

 

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]Say what?[/citation]

I'm trying, really hard to translate this.

I think he/she means.

Has google gone so far as to even want to look like they are doing more?

 

[Abrahm]

[citation][nom]von death[/nom]Has Google really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?[/citation]
But with then Google does even else China where if let's fighting love.

 

[hang-the-9]

[citation][nom]von death[/nom]Has Google really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?[/citation]

This is what you get when you text too much and then try to write a real sentence.

 

[STravis]

Egads!!! There's a lot of China in the news lately...seems like they're always up to something!

 

[aford10]

So others got a little taste of the censorship that China has forced on their citizens. I wonder how they liked it?

 

[ossie]

More probably modified DNS records were leaked outside by the chinese I anycast servers (replicating the root I one for faster local access), which are for "internal" use (aka redirecting chosen domains to local servers), due to some routing misconfiguration.

 

[pharge]

hmm... by the way... an off topic news (maybe already old but this news just remind me that)..

I heard that Go Daddy and Dell are thinking to leave China, too.

hmm... Guess google is not alone.

 

[jesseralston]

[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]LOL, another Jane's best.BTW, did you guys understand the article? Outside ISPs misrouted their traffic to China, not the other way around. When you log on to your ISP in the US, you don’t automatically end up in China. Your ISP has to route your connection to China first.[/citation]
Exactly, simplified, but hitting the main point. The other point to be made is that BGP is a weak point of the internet. Some idiot ISP accidentally screwed up a BGP route and it propagated before it was stopped, hence the problems.

 

[jesseralston]

[citation][nom]CTT[/nom]pei-chen, DNS cache poisoning, think is what its called, someone submits updated DNS entries with incorrect addresses to redirect traffic. Not out of the realm of reality based on what China has already hacked, to think they could have done something like this.[/citation]
Except that's not what the experts who actually understand the issue think. I'd have to completely agree with Pei-chen here.