YouTube IP Hijacking

Sun Feb 24 20:58:40 UTC 2008

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- -- Will Hargrave <will at harg.net> wrote:

>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.
>

I guess you guys missed the news that Pakistan has "blocked" YouTube
due to [mumble]:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/24/wpak324.xml

AS      Name
AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom

- - ferg

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