When the Pakistani government took umbrage at YouTube and unilaterally decided to block it's evil content from the innocent minds of the populace, some bright spark decided the best way would be for the Pakistani ISP(s) to highjack one of the YouTube IP prefixes, as advertised via BGP.
The result?
One of the biggest sites on the Internet blown out of the water, and millions of global web users sending their YouTube requests to the hapless Pakistani ISP(s).
An object lesson in how not use BGP.
The RIPE site has an excellent technical brief on this...
http://www.ripe.net/news/study-youtube-hijacking.html
Saturday, March 01, 2008
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