Following an attempt by the Pakistan government to block its citizens' access to YouTube, millions of people throughout the world were unable to go to the site for several hours on Sunday. This who debacle began on Friday when Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 internet providers to block YouTube.com so that Pakistanis would not be able to watch the several thousand anti-Islamic videos, mainly the trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch director Geert Wilders, on the site. The outage went world wide after, apparently, a Pakistan telecomm company accidently began advertising itself as the quickest route to the site which sent two-thirds of the global internet population's traffic into oblivion. Apparently, the telecomm company established a route that directed requests for YouTube videos from local Internet subscribers to a "black hole," where the data was discarded, according to vice president of internet community services at Renesys, Todd Underwood.That route was then published its international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. of Hong Kong who accepted it. PCCW, one of the world's 2o largest data carriers, this route was passed along to numerous other carriers without any double-checking. According to the Associated Press, Asia was hit the hardest by the outage, which lasted about two hours.
I'm just really glad I wasn't craving me some "Aicha" or "Flee Market Montgomery" on Sunday or I probably would have been SOL.
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