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Pakistan is deliberately blocking Youtube. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/24/1628213 Maybe we should all block Pakistan. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Will Hargrave > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: YouTube IP Hijacking > > > Sargun Dhillon wrote: > > > So, it seems that youtube's ip block has been hijacked by a more > > specific prefix being advertised. This is a case of IP > hijacking, not > > case of DNS poisoning, youtube engineers doing something > stupid, etc. > > For people that don't know. The router will try to get the most > > specific prefix. This is by design, not by accident. > > You are making the assumption of malice when the more likely > cause is one of accident on the part of probably stressed NOC > staff at 17557. > > They probably have that /24 going to a gateway walled garden > box which replies with a site saying 'we have banned this', > and that /24 route is leaking outside of their AS via PCCW > due to dodgy filters/communities. > > Will >
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