Pakistan Causes World Panic With YouTube Service
02.25.08 - 11:15pm
I am certain part of the world had a nervous breakdown when YouTube dropped off the Internet yesterday. I know I myself was un-phased by this event until my roommate asked me if YouTube was down for me. Slightly puzzled, I moved on with my day and didn’t give it any thought till this afternoon when I saw the news. The basic story is Pakistan decided to block YouTube within it’s IP range. It however did this by effectively routing traffic to a data blackhole where the packets would die. It then propagated this new route to other ISPs, toting it as a quick route to YouTube’s servers. This new routing table quickly propagated through the worlds routers and voila, YouTube DNS requests resulted in packets being sent into the abyss of Pakistan. This is just another case of companies trusting other companies and not verifying their results, happens all the time. No worries though, the routes were fixed and all was well within a few hours. Next up I say is Wikipedia, re-direct it to IsItChristmas.com. Perhaps blocking YouTube is a radical way to increase GDP by removing this popular video site from the population. According to the source, there are clips that offend Pakistan, a simple “please remove this garbage” would have worked.
Source: Yahoo
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