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Pakistan Hijacks YouTube: A Closer Look

Pakistan Hijacks YouTube: A Closer Look: "Just before 18:48 UTC, Pakistan Telecom, in response to government order to block access to YouTube (see news item), started advertising a route for 208.65.153.0/24 to its provider, PCCW (AS 3491). For those unfamiliar with BGP, this is a more specific route than the ones used by YouTube (208.65.152.0/22), and therefore most routers would choose to send traffic to Pakistan Telecom for this slice of YouTube’s network."

Posting something technical for once. Apperently Pakistan decided to do a BGP route injection for YouTube hosts a few days back.