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Saus on Nov 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Bela...

  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-hi...

mschuster91 on Nov 21, 2013 [–]

See 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

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