RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

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: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Will Hargrave
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:39 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> 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