Also, they lifted the ban today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/tec
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm
Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday.
What are your thoughts on this whole issue?
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..
Great thought that is exactly what i think.
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..
That probably was it, or it could have been someONE.
I doin't think this is very likely, its stupid, it had to be an error in the server, no one is to blame..thats what i say..
That probably was it, or it could have been someONE.
But who would want to do that?
The Pakistani government admitted it; so there's no real reason for the arguments on that part.
Also, they lifted the ban today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm
Sunday? I didn't have any problems with it, from 4:30 pm to 11:30 Pm CST, i did not notice any down times, and my vids still worked just fine, I have noticed though it is going a bit slow to load up, and my friend said that he was watching a video and suddenly it stopped but we both were watching the same video, and it worked fine for me.
Sunday? I didn't have any problems with it, from 4:30 pm to 11:30 Pm CST, i did not notice any down times, and my vids still worked just fine, I have noticed though it is going a bit slow to load up, and my friend said that he was watching a video and suddenly it stopped but we both were watching the same video, and it worked fine for me.
You've got to understand a bit about computer hardware to get an idea of why it happened, and why not everyone was affected.
What Pakistan did [or so I think, as it would be the easiest way to go about doing it] was create a fake website and give it the same address as YouTube's main server. Now, all of the internet runs through routers. Routers look for the quickest way to a web address. Pakistan has a few major Routing "Hubs". Having manually configured the routers into seeing the "fake" website as the quickest route to YouTube, it leads them there instead.
However, all routers store information from numerous peripheral routers. This meaning that routers outside of Paksitan with peripherals inside of Pakistan "learned" from these Pakistani routers that there was a quicker way to YouTube, thus also going to the fake address. As you know, everything is connected to pretty much anything else on the internet, so it didn't take long for hubs all over the globe to learn about this "quicker way" to YouTube.
Thus, not everyone will have been blocked from the site, but only a few compared to the number who were blocked.
Ahh I see, ok. The only time I run off my router is if I am on my PSP, and once I get my laptop, then I will be using it more. So since my friend out in California, and has AOL, still got blocked?
Ahh I see, ok. The only time I run off my router is if I am on my PSP, and once I get my laptop, then I will be using it more. So since my friend out in California, and has AOL, still got blocked?
Whether you use a router in your house or not, you could still have been affected. Your ISP has lots of routing hubs to allow all their users to access the internet.
ahh Ok. didn't know that. Im not into that technical stuff
Its just...one question...why? Why they hell did they do it??
I dont know maybe they wanted to make their own thing like youtube and crash youtube so other people will come to their site.
There are quite a few videos on YouTube that are quite offensive to Islamic beliefs and culture.
I found that quite funny
I don't think a country should try to ban it though.
I found that quite funny
I don't think a country should try to ban it though.
What about it exactly was funny?
So pretty much another story of a government censoring material from their popularion because they don't like what they see. Countries do this all the time when a site either goes against a politician, the government or their beliefs but usually not to such a large and well-known site. If it had been a small site it wouldn't have come to international attention, so I suppose really this is good in some ways, showing Pakistan is censoring the internet... =/ [if that made no sense, it's because I'm a bit out of it -_-;]
All governments are about censorship; there are quite a few Israeli sites that the US government overloads with hundreds of bots every second, causing the sites to not work, thus not letting anyone access the site.
I read about this.Marc's got it on the spot.
I read about this.Marc's got it on the spot.
There is one site that global governments try to block daily, as they post classified documents up that the public should see; deleting the site does nothing, though, as they have over 500 addresses by which to access it. I won't post links to it, but PM me if you'd like to know more about it.
I found that quite funny
I don't think a country should try to ban it though.
What about it exactly was funny?
The fact that one person can bring down an entire site for most of the world...
I found that quite funny
I don't think a country should try to ban it though.
What about it exactly was funny?
The fact that one person can bring down an entire site for most of the world...
Oh, I thought you meant funny as in humorous. But yeah, I actually find that a little eerie. Everything runs on the internet pretty much; barely anything valuable is closed-circuit anymore. It would be so easy to destroy everything we've worked for.
I was pretty pissed off. At first I was like "WOW, Youtube is down!" Then I realized Pakistan did it, and I was just like "Well this'll help us Muslims' case..."
Damn those Pakistanis. *shakes fist*