Is it the fact that the APCN-2 cable was severed in Taiwan again from the typhoon/earthquake?

Is it China Telecom with poor BGP? (Confirmed from our provider)

Is it the October 1st anniversary coming up?

Is it another batch of Edison Chen nude starlet photos doing the rounds?

Who knows… what I do know is that our private links to HK and then to the world are fine! Got to looove all the hard work those people in CANDIS put in to plan and manage against this VERY TYPE of thing for their clients.

Currently locally hosted sites work – but if this goes on like last time the cable was cut from the earthquake in 2007 – even they (local sites) will fail because DNS will fail because there are no root servers for DNS in China, most registrars are also not in China and well… you get the idea. No point being able to connect if you do not know where to connect!

Seems to have been some already today…. had one major CNC outage to one of CANDIS’ data centres and it knocked out some services. Various parties claimed it was a DDOS attack – however that is the 10th one this year…this time, our monitors in Shanghai and Hong Kong also detected an anomaly separate to our Beijing links. Which are multi-homed so what gives? We all know what gives.. I was being rhetorical.

PS: If visual representation of data is a totally foriegn concept to you, look around 10:12 AM to 10:35 AM today on the RRD graph.