Don't know but I am getting other mail from mail lists based in the States.
I may try subscribing to the list with another email address.
Hendrik
archer wrote:
Hi Hendrik,
Wonder if this might have something to do with your problems?
Gerry
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Internet service providers in China briefly tainted network routing
tables
on Thursday, marking the second time in two weeks operators in that
country
have done so, IDG newsreports.
The bad networking information originated from IDC China
Telecommunication
and was soon retransmitted by China's state-owned China
Telecommunications.
ISPs including AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, Qwest Communications and
Telefonica soon incorporated the data into their tables as well, IDG
said.
As a result, routing information for 32,000 to 37,000 networks was
affected,
potentially causing them to be redirected through IDC China instead of
their
path. Some 8,000 of the networks were located in the US, including those
operated by Dell, Apple, CNN, and Starbucks. Networks in AUSTRALIA, China
and elsewhere were also affected.
The incident comes two weeks after a similar networking anomaly caused
people in Chile to be redirected to Chinese networks, potentially
blocking
websites such as Facebook and YouTube, which are banned in that country.
The snafu underscores the fragility of the Border Gateway Protocol,
which is
used to route traffic over the internet. The core net underpinning
remains
susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks that can divert traffic to
impostor
networks.
At the 2008 Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, researchers
demonstrated
a BGP attack that allowed them to redirect traffic bound for the
conference
network to a system they controlled in New York. Also in 2008, large
chunks
of the internet lost access to YouTube when BGP tables inside Pakistan
spread to other countries.
It's unclear how widely felt Thursday's incident was outside of Asia, IDG
said. Routers frequently subscribe to several BGP routes and follow the
shortest path. That means networks physically located in the US,
Europe and
elsewhere may have ignored the tables that traveled through China.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/10/bgp_glitch/
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