YouTube IP Hijacking
Tomas L. Byrnes
tomb at byrneit.net
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
>
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