YouTube IP Hijacking

Sun Feb 24 22:27:01 UTC 2008

> > Which means that, by advertising routes more specific than the ones they
> > are poisoning, it may well be possible to restore universal connectivity
> > to YouTube.
> 
> Well, if you can get them in there.... Youtube tried that, to restore service
> to the rest of the world, and the announcements didn't propogate.

Some of us block prefixes longer than /24 at our borders (even if our
transit providers don't).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no