This reminds me of the time Pakistan's AS accidentally blocked YouTube for the whole world. They accidentally published a very specific routing rule pointing Yo

This reminds me of the time Pakistan's AS accidentally blocked YouTube for the whole world. They accidentally published a very specific routing rule pointing YouTube's IP addressed to some machine in their network. This sucks even more than breaking DNS because you can't even get around it by hardcoding the IP. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/02/pakistan_hijacks_youtube_1.shtml http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/02/pakistan_hijacks_youtube...