On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What does that mean and is it that trivial to knock a site off-line? "...Pakistan Telecom routed the address block that YouTube's servers are into a "black hole" as a simple measure to filter access to the service. However, this routing information escaped from Pakistan Telecom to its ISP PCCW in Hong Kong, which propagated the route to the rest of the world. So any packets for YouTube would end up in Pakistan Telecom's black hole instead." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-insecure-routing-redirects-youtube-to-pakistan.html What the heck does this stuff mean? It escaped? So anyone can 'escape' routing information to shut down the 'tubes?
