YouTube Suffers Downtime, Pakistan Telecom To Blame?
Posted: 24 Feb 2008 05:35 PM CST
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YouTube went down around 11:30am PST and came back some time later.
The interesting side of the outage is an allegation from OpenDNS that Pakistan Telecom hijacked YouTube’s IP address space resulting in a worldwide outage. They note that the issue was subsequently rectified by PCCW, but it raises the question: is it really that easy to take one of the largest destinations online down?
There is no official word from YouTube as yet on the cause of the downtime.
(thanks to Mauricio Idarraga for the tip)
From Tech crunch email.
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Roughly 3 to 5 million of Pakistan's 165 million people have Internet access, the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan says.
Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2008/02/youtube-down-2-hrs-paki-did-it.html on February 25, 2008.