It's down for me as well. |
I arrive on this forum via Ionut's request :) I though that my Internet provider blocked access to youtube. |
BTW, I have discovered this morning that a website has spammed YouTube with 95'000+ videos... within 1 day. http://----tiny----url---.com/2ru9fk (check that when youtube will go back) |
Watching "War of the Worlds" on tv and checking youtube.com isn't very assuasive at this time... :O |
Down for me in ireland too |
http://mashable.com/ is down too |
Youtube.com is back for mee |
Yes it is back, but slowly |
back 5:35 pm here in GA, usa |
can anyone confirm what the root cause of the incident is ? |
"Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube." – OpenDNS / http://system.opendns.com/2008/02/24/58/ |
A NOC person said ...
"It is exactly like the "game of telephone" that kids play. For example, Pakistan Telecom says "I am responsible for 1.2.3.4 (some IP address)" and then they tell PCCW. PCCW tells Verizon Business and NTT and others. NTT tells us and so when my customers ask "Where is Youtube, we're just answering based on what we've heard..." But all we know is that we heard it from NTT who heard it from PCCW who heard it from Pakistan Telecom. If Pakistan Telecom was lying (or made a mistake), we'd have no way to verify it." |
Working from Finland now and embedded Facebook profile YouTube videos work as well. |
The PCCW case described technically here: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg06314.html |
More analysis: Pakistan's Accidental YouTube Re-Routing Exposes Trust Flaw in Net: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/pakistans-accid.html
Internet Routing Insecurity: Pakistan Nukes YouTube?: http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/internet-routing-insecuritypakistan-nukes-youtube/ |
And "Pakistan allows YouTube return" now: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080227/BUSINESS/158962528/1006 |