Nanjing Telecom large area off the network is suspected of stress testing

DoNews, July 4 According to several DoNews netizens, starting from the morning of July 4, a large area server failure occurred in the telecommunications network of Nanjing Municipality, leaving a large number of broadband users unable to access the Internet. This is likely to be caused by an attack. As of press telecom official did not give the specific cause of the malfunction.

According to users reflect, starting from 10:45 am Nanjing Telecom large area network, telecommunications broadband network users are unable to access the Internet, 10000 customer service can not be connected, the user can only choose to use mobile phone 3G network. After a failure, although the network has been temporarily restored, but as of now the fault has not been fully repaired.

According to internal staff of Nanjing Telecom, the incident was a stress test before the Youth Olympic Games. At present, some regional networks have started to resume use.

Some practitioners in the IT field disclosed that this fault may be caused by the attack on the telecommunications network. There are also some problems with the core CRS routing or the failure of the metropolitan area network (the computer network established within the city area). Officials have not yet confirmed this statement.

After the network failure, many users through microblogging, WeChat and other platforms to ask questions and complaints, complaining about the network off the daily work has brought about the impact, there are netizens ridicule that "all Nanjing are waiting for network recovery." (Finish)