Weekend YouTube Outage Underscores Big Internet Problem

From Macworld
Sunday’s inadvertent disruption of Google’s YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet’s design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.

ISPs in Pakistan were able to block YouTube by creating BGP data that redirected routers looking for YouTube.com’s servers to nonexistent network destinations. But that data was accidentally shared with Hong Kong’s PCCW, who in turn shared it with other ISPs throughout the Internet.

In San Francisco, David Ulevitch first noticed the problem Saturday morning. “I was trying to watch cats falling off roofs… and I couldn’t get to YouTube,” he said.

(Shawn's Comment: Maybe that's the "Big Internet Problem" - you were spending a Saturday morning *WATCHING VIDEO OF CATS FALLING OFF ROOFS!*)

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