Why Did China's Internet Traffic Get Misdirected to Wyoming?

As much as three-quarters of China's more than 500 million Internet users experienced some sort of service outage Tuesday.

The outage itself isn't strange — it's where the traffic was redirectedAccording to the The New York Times, traffic from roughly 75% of China's various DNS servers were redirected to a business based in Cheyenne, Wyo.

At around 3:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, Internet traffic throughout China — including traffic to large sites such as Sina Weibo — began to be redirected to a DNS address for a server in Wyoming, GreatFire.org, a website that monitors web censorship in China, reported. The problem spread to other major sites, impacting a significant portion of all Internet traffic. Read more...