Much of China encountered a major web traffic jam yesterday. According to The New York Times, something seemingly went seriously awry within the country's Great Firewall on Tuesday, causing it to redirect nearly all traffic from inside China to the servers of a mysterious company registered to a small house in Cheyenne, Wyoming. GreatFire.org, a site that monitors China's firewall, reports that the issue lasted for around 45 minutes before it began to be gradually resolved — a process that the Times reports may have taken upward of eight hours for some.
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