Pakistani authorities accidentally shut down YouTube worldwide for several hours on Sunday while trying to block internal access to the video-sharing site. The Wall Street Journal'sJane Spencer wrote about the shut-down in today's paper.
The reason it only affected a few people was because they actually redirected traffic by changing the route your packets take, and not DNS poisoning. If the route is ignored, then it will still go to the correct address.
Feb. 26 2008 10:41 AM
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Paulo
from Paterson, New Jersey
I was wondering what had happened... I tried to go on the site and it wasn't a broken link, but it definitely wasn't working properly.
Feb. 26 2008 10:39 AM
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Kevin
from Brooklyn, NY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning
There's your explanation. This is really the only way to force people everywhere to go to the wrong address.
Feb. 26 2008 10:38 AM
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superf88
AApologies for inserting something only indirectly related BUT I am sure this is of interest to the audience:
Did the request to limit access to YouTubne have anything to do with the recent elections in Pakistan?
Feb. 26 2008 10:33 AM
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Kevin
from Brooklyn, NY
Oh, DNS poisoning. How easily it gets out of control!
Feb. 26 2008 10:02 AM
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Comments [6]
Actually, scratch that.
The reason it only affected a few people was because they actually redirected traffic by changing the route your packets take, and not DNS poisoning. If the route is ignored, then it will still go to the correct address.
I was wondering what had happened... I tried to go on the site and it wasn't a broken link, but it definitely wasn't working properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning
There's your explanation. This is really the only way to force people everywhere to go to the wrong address.
AApologies for inserting something only indirectly related BUT I am sure this is of interest to the audience:
(FACEBOOK/Morocco)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7258950.stm
Did the request to limit access to YouTubne have anything to do with the recent elections in Pakistan?
Oh, DNS poisoning. How easily it gets out of control!
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