Gautam John wrote: > What does that mean and is it that trivial to knock a site off-line?
Well, for a chronology of what went on, take a look at this - http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/02/pakistan_hijacks_youtube_1.shtml Or for a simpler overview, see Brian Krebs' article in the Washington post (in his securityfix blog) - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order _take.html My comment there on that blog post might put it into simpler terms. For something more complex, please get some cisco / other routing classes. Those who are already CCIEs and reading this, please forgive me for a really bad and oversimplified analogy ____ What this is like, is someone in a phone company in Atlanta screwing up and announcing that everything in (say) the 781 area code belongs to his telephone exchange, and is routed out of Atlanta rather than out of Boston (which is where 781 is). And then that Atlanta phone company sends out an update so that several other phone companies actually believe it. So, calls for boston people with 781 area codes end up getting rerouted to Atlanta instead of Boston. And either getting lost in thin air (as theres nobody in Atlanta who has a 781 area code phone) or making random unrelated phones ring. Its a crude analogy and phone switching doesnt really work this way .. but thought I would try at least making one.
