The Mohammad cartoon controversy continues. This time the new government in Pakistan decreed that all of YouTube should be blocked because they are hosting the Danish Mohammad cartoons in videos on the site.

The person running the Autonomous System (AS) which is the main backbone router for the whole country, put in a new entry in its BGP matrix that made it, accidentally or on purpose, authoritative for YouTube.Com’s DNS IP range. This effectively decapitated the company for a few hours over the weekend.

I have more analysis and lots of links over at Geeks Are Sexy here.

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