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Pakistan causes major youtube outage

February 26, 2008 posted by indiatime |

Pakistan’s telecommunications agencies caused global Youtube outage when they erroneously posed as the fastest route to Youtube, after having blocked Youtube access within Pakistan to ban any so-called blasphemous content.

Two days ago, Pakistan started blocking Youtube access to its internet netizens. The telecom agencies in Pakistan redirected any internal request for Youtube videos to an internet ‘black hole’, a dead-end where the requests just died and the internet users were thus denied access to Youtube content. But Pakistan Telecom published that route to its international carrier in Hong Kong which compounded the Pakistan Telecom’s error by directing any Youtube requests that it received, to a bunch of blocked internet addresses in Pakistan. The Hong Kong carrier’s error got propagated to other major carriers and for a while, most of Asia was blocked from accessing Youtube.

As of Monday evening, Youtube site was up in most places except Pakistan and there were no apparent changes in the content for which Pakistan had originally banned Youtube. Also running normally were Wikipedia and Google, the other major information hubs that still displayed the content banned in Pakistan.


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