Didn't Notice a Thing Here

[Randy W]

Global Times:

 

Hacker attack may have shut down Internet: expert

 

Multiple domestic Domain Name System service providers revealed that the incident occurred around 3 pm, when abnormalities appeared to root servers of all generic top-level domain names in the country.

Tests conducted by several Internet security agencies suggested that a large amount of domestic traffic to the disrupted websites was rerouted to an IP address of a US company Dynamic Internet Technology in North Carolina.

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Normal access to most websites resumed around 5 pm and current investigation has not determined the exact cause.

 

 

 

It seems like tossing the name of Falun Gong into this may be a stretch, but this is what the Shanghaiist had to say

 

Massive internet hack directs 2/3 of Chinese web traffic to Falun Gong VPN site

Sina, Baidu, Weibo, and other Chinese internet juggernauts were hit by the redirect, which was presumably caused by someone/some people sympathetic to either the Falun Gong movement or anti-censorship causes (or both). According to the Wall Street Journal:

 

Bill Xia, who created Dynamic Internet Technology [makers of Freegate] in 2001, said his company had nothing to do with the massive shift in traffic. Most likely, he said, the shift occurred as the result of a tweak to the Great Firewall by the Chinese government, which inadvertently sent a huge amount of traffic to his IP address. Normally, he said, that address is blocked in China.

 

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“It was hundreds of thousands of users per second. They were sending [all of] China to us, so it’s hundreds of millions of users,” he said in a phone interview. ”It’s still ongoing. We didn’t see it die out. Maybe they fixed it for some part of China … but it’s still really heavy traffic.”

 

 

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Another expert said: "The security of mainland websites is very poor and they have low awareness of protection. Even an individual could launch an attack."

 

 

[NUWORLD]

This may have something to do with it.

 

Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming House

 

 

In one of the more bizarre twists in recent Internet memory, much of the Internet traffic in China was redirected to a mysterious company in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Tuesday. A large portion of China’s 500 million Internet users were unable to load websites ending in .com, .net or .org for nearly eight hours in most regions of China, according to Compuware, a Detroit-based technology company

 

[Randy W]

I use DNS servers in the U.S. - I've even got them programmed into the router so they are passed along to any computer on the network. The local Guangxi servers are secondary.

 

There is no access control to Domain servers - you should be able to use any of them. You definitely want servers from outside the Great Firewall.