Security & Hacking: Why Google Went Down, IP hijacking or oops

Also know as BGP hijacking, prefix hijacking or route hijacking, or woopsie in this case.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-an-indonesian-isp-took-down-the-mighty-google-for-30-minutes/

This is really interesting, a whole new subset of Internet stuff I need to study now, evidently this happens intentionally and maliciously on a regular basis.

Some Resources for further study, only the Wiki link is at non specialist level IMHO:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking
• http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/
• http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/uknot

Nerd News: More on Hurricane Sandy's effect on Data Centers

Ars link http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-takes-data-centers-offline-with-flooding-power-outages/

For a similar post see http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/10/nerd-news-internet-hubs-hurricane-sandy.html

Nerd News: Internet Hubs & Hurricane Sandy

For those wondering why problems in New York affect Teamliquid and other net based services, this is interesting http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233080/Storm_forces_Internet_hubs_to_run_on_generator_power

The article linked above is about what they call "carrier hotels," more formally known as Colocation Center (coloc for short), see Wikipedia for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre

Short version is those two Colocation Centers are a major node from Transatlantic internet traffic, right now both of them are running on their generators.

Twitch is having problems, they are aware of it and working on issue

https://twitter.com/theGunrun/status/256964146141224960

All kinds of crazy tonight on internets.

For those that don't know Gunrun is one of the Wizzards that fixes problems on Twitch.

This from Fishstix, another Twitch TV employee
  
"We are aware if apparent issues with all Twitch streams and our engineers are on it. Update soon"


https://twitter.com/FishStix/status/256962649542242304

Nerd News: Good News for Nerds In UK, Net Speeds Increasing!

A lot of Buzz about UK Internet Providers and improvements this week.

First this bit about prices from the BBC:

The price of broadband down your copper telephone line is about to come down, thanks to those nice folks at Ofcom.

The latest price controls on BT's wholesale division mean that companies like Sky and Talktalk, which supply broadband via the Openreach ADSL network, should be able to trim the cost to their customers.

 
And this from TechSpot:

Virgin Media had previously rolled out 100Mbps services in select areas of the country but it is now topping at 120Mbps. Over the next 18 months the company plans to upgrade the connection speeds of its entire customer base, with existing 10Mbps subscribers getting a bump to 20Mbps, those that currently have 20Mbps or 30Mbps packages getting 60Mbps, while Brits on a 50Mbps service will achieve 100Mbps after the upgrade. Those that purchase Virgin Media's 100Mbps service will also see their speed increased to 120Mbps.

Looks like the UK is pulling clearly ahead of the US for nationwide quality of internet.

Nerd News: "Bell Canada drops traffic shaping in favor of an "economic" approach"

Traffic shaping along Bell Canada and Bell Aliant's ISP lines came in with a bang three years ago, infuriating consumers and advocates. "Unacceptable," critics called it—a "symptom of Bell's arrogance" and "blatant censorship." But Canada's telecommunications regulators gave the practice a provisional go-ahead, so the companies throttled away, the focus being on P2P use between 4:30pm and 2am.


Now the practice is going out with a whimper, as per a letter posted on Monday to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The telcos will "withdraw the shaping of P2P traffic" on their networks, both wholesale and retail traffic, as of March 1. But why?

Source and rest of the story:  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/bell-canada-drops-traffic-shaping-in-favor-of-an-economic-approach.ars

I wonder if this will influence Net pricing here in USA?