{"id":83,"date":"2008-02-25T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/youtube-briefly-offline-due-to-pakistani-isp\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:29:46","slug":"youtube-briefly-offline-due-to-pakistani-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/youtube-briefly-offline-due-to-pakistani-isp\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube briefly offline due to Pakistani ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently YouTube, according to a Pakistani telecommunications authority, carries content that is &#8220;deemed offensive to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>So the ISP either purposefully or accidentally, added custom routing configurations to it&#8217;s routers to block YouTube. The unfortuate side-effect was that these BGP announcements were propagated to a large part of the world&#8217;s routers, taking YouTube offline for a good number of people.<\/p>\n<p>This fellow has a pretty good summation\/chronology of what happened:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renesys.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/pakistan_hijacks_youtube.shtml\" title=\"Renesys Blog: Pakistan hijacks YouTube\">Renesys Blog: Pakistan hijacks YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently YouTube, according to a Pakistani telecommunications authority, carries content that is &#8220;deemed offensive to Islam. So the ISP either purposefully or accidentally, added&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/youtube-briefly-offline-due-to-pakistani-isp\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube briefly offline due to Pakistani ISP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[26,24,25,23],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-routers-and-firewalls","category-soap-box","tag-asns","tag-bgp","tag-routing","tag-youtube","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}