"Essentially, Pakistan Telecom took over some of the net addresses assigned to YouTube.
Crucially the path it offered to this group of addresses was faster than the usual one used by the hardware, or routers, that speed traffic around the internet.
Pakistan Telecom let this address change propagate to the routers of one of its partners - PCCW.
Routers are constantly in search of faster ways to get the data passing through them to its destination so news about this faster path started propagating across many of the net's routers. "
farkinga
· 1 year ago
Wow - I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent sabotage on undersea fiber cables. That is, could two Pakistani and Chinese ISPs pull this off - hijack and subvert 67% of Internet traffic to YouTube - if the usual lines were operational?
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"Essentially, Pakistan Telecom took over some of the net addresses assigned to YouTube.
Crucially the path it offered to this group of addresses was faster than the usual one used by the hardware, or routers, that speed traffic around the internet.
Pakistan Telecom let this address change propagate to the routers of one of its partners - PCCW.
Routers are constantly in search of faster ways to get the data passing through them to its destination so news about this faster path started propagating across many of the net's routers. "