NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Pakistan YouTube block routing changes disrupt YouTube worldwide
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote: > This story hasn't seen much mainstream media play yet. Apparently > the means chosen by Pakistan's ISPs to conform to their government's > attempt to block their people's access to "religiously offensive" > video materials -- low level routing changes Points up the need for securing the routing infrastructure...work is ongoing. If you want to see exactly what happened, and when, go to: http://www.ris.ripe.net/dashboard/36561, and you will see the /25 announcements from youtube. For a really cool look, try http://www.ris.ripe.net/bgplay enter 208.65.153.0/24 and specify starting time on the 23rf Feb, and you can clearly see when AS1757 stating announcing the /24 more specific. Do we know for sure it was malicious? Routing is hard, not knowing what they were doing is a more likely scenario. -- Cheers, McTim $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim