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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on February 25, 2008, 08:20:11 pm

Title: Blasphemy!!
Post by: Kosh on February 25, 2008, 08:20:11 pm

If you're in Pakistan that's what youtube is the equivelent of:

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/25/1322252.shtml

And from what I gather they have decided to shut themselves off from the internet.

Title: Re: Blasphemy!!
Post by: achtung on February 25, 2008, 08:20:51 pm

So that's why they cut those cables.

Title: Re: Blasphemy!!
Post by: Kosh on February 25, 2008, 08:23:46 pm

Correction: It seems like they redirected all of youtube's traffic to Pakistan, denying the rest of the world access. Wierd.

Title: Re: Blasphemy!!
Post by: Herra Tohtori on February 25, 2008, 08:47:36 pm

No man threatens the Internets! This is blasphemy! This is madness! :lol:


Yeah, it appears they messed up the global routing tables so that traffic to Youtube.com's IP ended up routed to either Pakistan or nowhere. How they managed it, your guess is as good as mine. Kinda freaks me out that some ISP goofing around the Internets can cause a global access blackout of some IP space... :nervous:

Title: Re: Blasphemy!!
Post by: Polpolion on February 25, 2008, 08:57:18 pm

Thank God I live in Amer... not Pakistan...

Title: Re: Blasphemy!!
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2008, 11:48:22 am

Quote from: Herra Tohtori on February 25, 2008, 08:47:36 pm

How they managed it, your guess is as good as mine.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-insecure-routing-redirects-youtube-to-pakistan.html