YouTube IP Hijacking

Sun Feb 24 20:49:55 UTC 2008

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