Pakistan blocks YouTube, ends up getting blocked from the internet.
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blackpearl
The Devil
They modified their routing tables to divert traffic to youtube. The modified tables got propagated to all other international routers and they modified their own tables accordingly. This happens will all high priority routers and DNS servers. These records get updated throughout the Internet. Hence the whole global traffic to youtube was divereted.
preshit.net
ex3n1us m4x1mus
@naveen
If you're an ISP, you are capable of doing that.
What they did was accidental and unintentional, and they rectified it as soon as they realized it.
If you're an ISP, you are capable of doing that.
What they did was accidental and unintentional, and they rectified it as soon as they realized it.
Choto Cheeta
Rebooting
I thought ICANN is there to make sure no one actually do this !!!! As to protect and make sure IP (Numbers) are interlinked properlly !!!
Still didnt get it, Pakisthan would getway with this violation of ICANN own Rules ??
its simple fact on a network, 2 computers cant have same IP address
the rule is same with Internet also... and just like system admin of a local network, ICANN is there to make sure, that no 2 place claims to own or tries to point network traffic to same IP !!!
ICANN was meant to solve this problem which we saw with Paki and Youtube !!!
Still didnt get it, Pakisthan would getway with this violation of ICANN own Rules ??
its simple fact on a network, 2 computers cant have same IP address
the rule is same with Internet also... and just like system admin of a local network, ICANN is there to make sure, that no 2 place claims to own or tries to point network traffic to same IP !!!ICANN was meant to solve this problem which we saw with Paki and Youtube !!!
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naveen_reloaded
!! RecuZant By Birth !!
now i get somtthing out of this conversation...
the router into the country is modified to make sure utube end up in some page created by gov...
anyway.. cat they use some encrypted way to access utube???
so wht and all sites are taken away from paki ppl??
the router into the country is modified to make sure utube end up in some page created by gov...
anyway.. cat they use some encrypted way to access utube???
so wht and all sites are taken away from paki ppl??
Count Dracula
Journeyman
Uh.What?,I saw my Pakistani friend online at 12:30 AM yesterday.Lol.
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someone in pakistan can use proxy na?
Pathik
Google Bot
Exactly. Even if Pakis managed to redirect youtube to their custom error page, This should have been effective only for those who use that ISP in Pakistan. How did it affect the routing tables of all the DNS servers around the world.?? Who decides the priority of such requests?I thought ICANN is there to make sure no one actually do this !!!! As to protect and make sure IP (Numbers) are interlinked properlly !!!
Still didnt get it, Pakisthan would getway with this violation of ICANN own Rules ??
its simple fact on a network, 2 computers cant have same IP address
ICANN was meant to solve this problem which we saw with Paki and Youtube !!!
blackpearl
The Devil
That's the problem. Anyone with access to these high priority gateways and routers can messup with the config and bring the whole net down.
Thats' how the whole Internet works. The tables get updated every 24 hours as new websites and servers get added and changed around the world. If you launch a website on a server in India, even a visitor in US can access it. How? The DNS records from your website's registrar gets propagated to the top level DNS server from where it gets distributed to all DNS servers around the world.
The case with Pakistan is a bit different though. It's explained nicely in the following. You have to know how routing works to understand it
*arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-insecure-routing-redirects-youtube-to-pakistan.html
Thats' how the whole Internet works. The tables get updated every 24 hours as new websites and servers get added and changed around the world. If you launch a website on a server in India, even a visitor in US can access it. How? The DNS records from your website's registrar gets propagated to the top level DNS server from where it gets distributed to all DNS servers around the world.
The case with Pakistan is a bit different though. It's explained nicely in the following. You have to know how routing works to understand it
*arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-insecure-routing-redirects-youtube-to-pakistan.html
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T
The Conqueror
Guest
lol
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