There are few reported total dead of internet access. However, the duration is not too long and the internet connection back to normal.
Internet access interference felt by users of various utilities. Not dominated by a user of a mobile carrier or internet service provider (ISP) specific.
What is actually happening on the Internet network homeland on that Friday night?
"There is a problem caused by misconfiguration in one (ISP) that is connected to OpenIXP," said Administrator OpenIXP, Johar Alam Rangkuti Creative Bojez when contacted Thursday.
The real problem occurs at one ISP that is connected with OpenIXP. However, the impact to the entire ISP and telecommunication operators that are connected to the internet hub.
For information, OpenIXP overshadow most ISPs and other internet service providers that operate in Indonesia. Indonesian internet traffic was as much as approximately 95 percent dwell in OpenIXP.
Statement of Johar same time denied reports circulating on social media internet access interference on Thursday night happened because "IIX DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service)".
"There is no DDoS attack," Johar insists.
Johar said, the main problem comes from a configuration error at layer 2 by a technician or network administrator an internet service provider company. Johar refused to reveal their names.
According to Johar, who also serves as Chairman of Indonesian Internet Data Center, one incident this configuration has occurred since 2000 ago and is still often repeated.
"Within a year, there could be many times by your ISP or network is different, which is caused by a new network admin," says Johar.
One incident is misconfigured, brought up in the media, the Internet network occurs in Indosat in 2014 ago. Impact was then not only interfere with the operator's service but also the global Internet network.
Source of the problem comes from the collapse of the Indosat network layer 3 BGP configuration errors.
BGP is the core of the Internet routing protocols that form the backbone of the Internet world. BGP can be described as a way of a router communicates with other routers.
All routers on the Internet adheres to the principle of "mutual trust" and there are hundreds of thousands of BGP routers are also "mutual trust". If BGP is configured incorrectly, the ISP router A will give an incorrect address to the router B. Impact, if a user opened a network / server a site or service, it will be problematic.
For this incident, according to Johar, an error in the configuration of layer 2.
"The technical language, Broadcast Storm at layer-2. Problems layer-2 certainly more severe than the layer-3, it comes (problems now) worse than Indosat," he said.
Although the problem is referred to a larger, the impact was not too massive and only national not international in scope.
According to Johar, the problem is actually worse, but because it has many times happened for 16 years makes handling problems faster.
Johar noted that this year alone there are five to six times the incident, which is as bad or worse than the incident last night.
"Was predictable problem, treatment is usually quick and on the user side only felt for 20 to 30 minutes of internet slowing down," said Johar.
Fast troubleshooting make users feel like everything is fine and the incident is not considered a 'dead' internet severe.
"The positive, so not a huge problem because no one is 'disturbed' severe," says Johar.
However, because the effect is not severe, according to Johar, network administrator at the wrong ISP configures do not feel have made a fatal mistake. Due to interference only occurs for 10-20 minutes and is normal again.
Going forward, so that the same problems do not recur, Johar advise the network administrator to not feel most knowledgeable about the Internet, despite the school computer or have a certificate from the vendor.
"Usually because they did not want to learn or hear another person's input. Happens to always make the wrong configuration," says Johar.
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