Something strange is afoot in Durham, North Carolina. The wireless network of Duke University has been having issues in the past few days, with routers being barraged by repeated requests for IP addresses—up to 18,000 per second. And that problem has been laid squarely at the feet of iPhones on campus.

Capture of network packets revealed that the iPhones arised to be the culprit, with, in some cases as few as two of them making decent requests to take routers offline for ten or fifteen minutes.

The oddity of that circumstance is its

uniqueness. By that point, there are tens of thousands of iPhones around the country, and no other institution has reported the same issue. Is it something specific to Duke’s setup, or is it just an extremely rare problem that happened to crop up there?

Duke’s network team has reported the issue to Apple, who’s apparently busy investigating, though they have not yet responded to the query. whether I might be so bold to propose, perhaps they should seek the culprits to the southwest.

Original post by Dan Moren