The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant
drops in network traffic as a result?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/
Interesting… it looks like they seized the servers and didn't touch DNS.
-bash-3.00$ nslookup megaupload.com
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: megaupload.com
Address: 174.140.154.22
Name: megaupload.com
Address: 174.140.154.23
Name: megaupload.com
Address: 174.140.154.24
Name: megaupload.com
Address: 174.140.154.20
Name: megaupload.com
Address: 174.140.154.21
DNS still points to Mega Upload's IPs.
Ars Technica are implying it was quite a source of bandwidth usage within companies. I'm curious, are any interesting charts on an ISP side?
<nitpick>
As a matter of techincal accuracy, The Ars Technica article reports that
monitored corporate networks had more traffic to/from megaupload.com than
to/from several other 'cyberlocker' operations, inncluding ones that were
more focused on the 'corporate' market.
'quite a source of bandwidth usage' is a bit of an overstatement, as the
traffic to/from Megaupload was somewhat over 20 terabyes, out of a total
of 10,900+ terabytes of monitored traffic. Or about 0.189% of corporate
usage on the monitored networks.
</nitpick>
For us (AS11666), about 3-4% of total traffic typically....
Paul