Pak Telecom’s attempts to block YouTube cause global outage.
Posted on February 24th, 2008 in Business Tech |
Ouch! Talk about embrassing… see the news article below,
” Pakistan’s attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday. “
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm
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3 Responses
Highly embarrassing yes. But the idea of the block was brilliant. Essentially PTA offered a shortcut to Youtube with a very short ping time, obviously to a bogus site. Every search or access to Youtube tracked through that path as a result. And apparently the signal got picked up by a service in India that was providing internet access to most of Asia. From there on the world.
Brilliant.
Wednesday Feb 26th, 2008. 10:54AM PST
I just accessed http://www.youtube.com and its working fine at my end. Tried playing a video and everything is normal.
I am in Karachi, connected to the internet at my office via the dedicated link provided by Cybernet.
Is this thing for sure or the usual Pakistani uproar of making much ado about nothing….
yes its for real. Cybernet for now seems to be the only isp from where youtube can be accessed.