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IIRC the one with the biggest fallout was some Pakistani ISP which fucked up a YouTube block order - they broadcasted the null-route to the entire Internet and
by Saus 13y ago
IIRC the one with the biggest fallout was some Pakistani ISP which fucked up a YouTube block order - they broadcasted the null-route to the entire Internet and Google couldn't do anything, lol.
I never heard the 'Pakistan shutting off Youtube globally'-story, so for those equally interested:
http://www.renesys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nanog43-hijack.pdf http://www.renesys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nanog43-hi...
- mschuster91 13y agoSee http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-developments/youtube-hijacking-a-ripe-ncc-ris-case-study http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve... for a source and some diagrams explaining the BGP routes. The accident occured back in 2008, and Wikipedia carries a list of successful, big BGP hijacks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking