How did the storm video bring down the Internet across the country?

How did the storm video cause a national network outage?

In fact, storm video is not the only person responsible for this incident, nor did it deliberately want to engage in paralysis telecommunications. Of course, such a disastrous result is similar to the hacker directly hacked the storm client, or the storm intends to kill itself from the people; But in this case, we need to know about a service called DNSpod.

After the telecom split, the situation of the South telecom North Netcom troubled the domestic webmaster, so all kinds of websites began to rent the North-South dual-line server, and use DNS resolution services to assign the domain name server to the website. DNSpod is a free service, so many websites in China, including cnBeta and the storm video, use DNSpod's service.

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