[102654] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Sun Feb 24 15:56:50 2008
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:49:55 -0800
In-Reply-To: <47C1D5CA.3010203@harg.net>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Will Hargrave" <will@harg.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Pakistan is deliberately blocking Youtube.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D08/02/24/1628213
Maybe we should all block Pakistan.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Will Hargrave
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:39 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
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> Sargun Dhillon wrote:
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> > So, it seems that youtube's ip block has been hijacked by a more=20
> > specific prefix being advertised. This is a case of IP=20
> hijacking, not=20
> > case of DNS poisoning, youtube engineers doing something=20
> stupid, etc.
> > For people that don't know. The router will try to get the most=20
> > specific prefix. This is by design, not by accident.
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> You are making the assumption of malice when the more likely=20
> cause is one of accident on the part of probably stressed NOC=20
> staff at 17557.
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> They probably have that /24 going to a gateway walled garden=20
> box which replies with a site saying 'we have banned this',=20
> and that /24 route is leaking outside of their AS via PCCW=20
> due to dodgy filters/communities.
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> Will
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