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• [1] Kevin from Brooklyn, NY February 26, 2008 - 10:02AM

  Oh, DNS poisoning. How easily it gets out of control!

  
  
• [2] Derek Tutschulte from Brooklyn February 26, 2008 - 10:33AM

  Did the request to limit access to YouTubne have anything to do with the recent elections in Pakistan?

  
  
• [3] superf88 February 26, 2008 - 10:34AM

  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

  
  
• [4] Kevin from Brooklyn, NY February 26, 2008 - 10:38AM

  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.

  
  
• [5] Paulo from Paterson, New Jersey February 26, 2008 - 10:39AM

  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.

  
  
• [6] Kevin from Brooklyn, NY February 26, 2008 - 10:41AM

  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.