Greetings,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/16/internet-traffic-reportedly-route...
Hard to decipher what the Fox report is actually talking about, but I suspect it relates to http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/06/two-strikes-i-root.shtml
I would echo the thoughts earlier in this thread that the Fox story is making rather non-technical or technically vague statements. As I read the text [*], my suspicion is that this report has very little to do with the I-root's global Beijing instance (exposure to risk here would requires DNS tampering, visibility outside China and, to boot, is probabilistic, rather than wholesale). The article makes references to the terms hijacking, redirection, a 'state-owned Chinese telecommunications firm' and 'security vulnerabilities pertaining to Internet routing processes'. It seems much more likely that this article is a digested summary of the routing leak (re-origination) of tens of thousands of prefixes by AS 27374, discussed on this list and detailed by BGPMon: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-April/020789.html http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=282 Danny McPherson also posted a nice summary here, as well, and identfies the problem we know and love so well (BGP) and even refers 'routing by rumour', as you did David. http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-April/020864.html The Fox story twice refers to 2010-04-18, but the date was 2010-04-08. -Martin -- Martin A. Brown --- Renesys Corporation --- mabrown@renesys.com