China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 26, 2010 @05:50AM from the trial-run-successful dept.

angry tapir writes "A networking error has caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of the Great Firewall of China, redirecting Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube users to Chinese servers. Security experts are not sure exactly how this happened, but it appears that at least one ISP recently began fetching high-level DNS information, from what's known as a root DNS server, based in China. That server, operated out of China by Swedish service provider Netnod, returned DNS information intended for Chinese users, effectively spreading China's network censorship overseas."

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Re:Now... by sopssa · 2010-03-26 06:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

It's the other way around than what you're suggesting. Chinese didn't try do anything. ISP's elsewhere mistakenly configured their servers to use Chinese DNS servers.
They are keeping their shit for them. It's just that someone else is fetching it from them to elsewhere.