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Offline Kosh

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Blasphemy!!
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.
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Re: Blasphemy!!
Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 08:20:51 pm
So that's why they cut those cables.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Blasphemy!!
Reply #2 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.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Blasphemy!!
Reply #3 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:
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: Blasphemy!!
Reply #4 on: February 25, 2008, 08:57:18 pm
Thank God I live in Amer... not Pakistan...
  

Offline karajorma

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Re: Blasphemy!!
Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 11:48:22 am
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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