Web traffic redirected to China mystery

CloneRanger · Oct 10, 2010

Six months after Web traffic involving popular U.S. sites and e-mail from computers around the globe was re-directed to Chinese servers unnecessarily, Internet watchers are trying to figure out why it happened and how to prevent future mishaps.

In at least two instances since mid-March, large amounts of traffic on the Internet have been routed to China in circumstances still shrouded in mystery, Rodney Joffe, senior technologist at DNS (Domain Name System) registry Neustar, told CNET in an interview this week.

The first situation happened on March 24, when workers at network operation centers in various parts of the world noticed that traffic to popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and about 20 or 30 others was being redirected to servers in China as a result of traffic interception via one of the main DNS root servers. This had the result of giving Web surfers in western countries a glimpse of what Chinese Internet users see when they try to access sites that are blocked--error messages indicating that the sites don't exist or censored Chinese-language versions of the sites. It's unknown how long the situation lasted, according to Joffe.

The next month, something similar happened on April 8. In this case, 37,000 routes, or paths to groups of Internet Protocol addresses--representing about 10 percent of the total routes--were diverted through networks in China for 17 minutes, Joffe said.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-2...rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20#ixzz11vaSoKEi

xxJackxx · Oct 11, 2010

I'm pretty sure there was a thread on this subject back nearer the time it actually happened. Too bad that this is possible. Somebody needs to cut the lines between here and there.

MrBrian · Oct 25, 2010

From Report: China hijacked U.S. Internet data:

A Chinese state-run telecom provider was the source of the redirection of U.S. military and corporate data that occurred this past April, according to excerpts of a draft report sent to CNET by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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Sheldon7 · Nov 15, 2010

China Hijacked the internet for 18 minutes

For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies.
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http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=249

hierophant · Nov 16, 2010

Re: China Hijacked the internet for 18 minutes

Wasn't that reported back in April as a glitch in the Great Firewall?

Edit: Perhaps this is what I was remembering ...

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=264418

JRViejo · Nov 16, 2010

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