On Feb 24, 7:38 pm, "Orac" <b...@bla.bla> wrote:
> http://life.tweakers.net/nieuws/5207...t-youtube-wege...
>
> Wanneer gaat dit ook hier gebeuren?

Het is al hier gebeurd. Een paar uur geleden was de YouTube site ook
voor mij onbereikbaar, naar nu blijkt omdat ze in Pakistan (per
ongeluk) de IP address space van YouTube hadden gekaapt.

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Pakistan 'sparks YouTube outage'

Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an
almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on
Sunday.

BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to
Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.

A leading net professional said the global outage was "probably a
mistake".

Pakistan ordered internet service providers to block the site because
of content deemed offensive to Islam.

The BBC News website's technology editor, Darren Waters, says that to
block Pakistan's citizens from accessing YouTube it is believed
Pakistan Telecom "hijacked" the web server address of the popular
video site.

There will definitely be some fallout from this

Those details were then passed on to the country's internet service
providers so that anyone in Pakistan attempting to go to YouTube was
instead re-directed to a different address.

But the details of the "hijack" were leaked out into the wider
internet from PCCW and as a result YouTube was mistakenly blocked by
internet service providers around the world.

The block on the servers was lifted once PCCW had been told of the
issue by engineers at YouTube.


Users are quite upset. They're screaming at ISPs which can't do
anything
Wahaj-us-Siraj, convener of the Association of Pakistan Internet
Service Providers

A leading net professional told BBC News: "This was probably a simple
mistake by an engineer at Pakistan Telecom. There's nothing to suggest
this was malicious."

IP hijacking involves taking over a web site's unique address by
corrupting the internet's routing tables, which direct the flow of
data around the world.

No-one at YouTube or PCCW was immediately available for comment.