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Websites hosted in DPRK are experiencing outages currently (www.reuters.com)
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SEOUL, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Some North Korean websites appear to have ​been experiencing intermittent outages, analysts ‌said on Wednesday.

Here are the details:

More than 40 official sites ​using the country's .kp domain, ​including those of the foreign ⁠ministry and state news ​agency KCNA, were inaccessible or ​unstable on Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

Network monitoring service ​Telecom Observer said it ​detected nearly six hours of disruptions in North ‌Korea's ⁠Border Gateway Protocol routing infrastructure from 1810 to 2350 GMT on Tuesday.

Analysts also ​observed intermittent ​outages ⁠on Wednesday, though many websites, such as ​KCNA and newspaper Rodong ​Sinmun, ⁠were accessible by 0043 GMT.

The cause has not been ⁠publicly ​attributed, analysts said.

North ​Korea's internet has suffered disruptions before.

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[–] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

Were they using PHP?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    Would be funny but not really surprising if the DPRK is the only country largely following the security guidance of the PHP core team

    (To switch off unpatched services)

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    [–] 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    a few years back some reddit hero was DDoS'ing a bunch of DPRK site afaik, could be the same sort of thing happening

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    [–] 14 points 9 hours ago

    Dang it, there goes my favorite fursona forum.

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    [–] [S] 13 points 10 hours ago*

    I check KCNA pretty much every day. I was able to access it around 10 hours ago. DPRK websites have been down for at least 6 hours now.

    I tried to investigate the outage. The DNS looking isn't resolving. I try to do a DNS lookup for kcna.kp on multiple DNS servers and it returns like "name not found". I don't know what that means.

    I posted a list of DPRK websites here. https://hexbear.net/post/9499707

    subscribe to !pyongyang@hexbear.net

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