NDM Post 44

What happens when most of China visits your website? It dies a horrible death

When a significant proportion of all the web traffic in China gets directed to one server that server dies a rapid death, Craig Hockenberry, the senior software engineer for developers Iconfactory, in the small university town of Greensboro, North Carolina, On Tuesday, woke up to discover that the main server for his company was receiving around 13,000 requests per second, /roughly a third of Google’s global search traffic and this traffic was coming from IP addresses located in China. Hockenberry said. “Clearly there was some kind problem with traffic being routed to the wrong place. The most likely candidate would, of course, be DNS”, He was forced to block all traffic coming from China in order to keep the site up and running

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/what-happens-when-most-of-china-visits-your-website-it-dies-a-horrible-death