Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube. This isn’t an OpenDNS issue. Just letting you all know. :-)This is now fixed. PCCW took far far too long to fix their broken customer (Pakistan Telecom) … Argh.

[Via OpenDNS > System (also available at http://208.67.219.60/)]

Intorno alle 20.15 avevo in effetti riscontrato un problema di irraggiungibilità di YouTube, e la colpa era ricaduta immediatamente su OpenDNS, per poi essere smentita visto che nemmeno dal portatile riuscivo a risolvere il pool di hostname dalla famosa community.

Ora la spiegazione…

Qualche testa in Pakistan oggi salterà sicuramente ma oltre questo, si mette in evidenza l’eccessiva fragilità del sistema di Name Resolution alla base di DNS, che sia il caso ripensare questo protocollo?

Update1:

Pakistan’s attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday.BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.

A leading net professional said the global outage was “probably a mistake”.

Pakistan ordered internet service providers to block the site because of content deemed offensive to Islam.

[Via BBC NEWS | Technology | Pakistan 'sparks YouTube outage']

E la BBC la fa sempre fuori dal vasetto!!!

Update2:

The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to enforce a decree from the Pakistani government that ISP’s must block access to YouTube because it was a source of blasphemous content.

[Via Pakistan removed from the Internet | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com]

… anche in Pakistan non scherzano

YouTube Support « WordPress.com
Follow closely: I found the video above on this page. To embed it in the post all I had to do was copy and paste the URL I just linked and then paste it into the post with special formatting, like this:
[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]
Try it yourself, copy and paste the above into your blog and see what happens. Now browse to another video on YouTube and copy and paste the link as above and paste it in your blog. If this goes well, we’ll be adding support for more and more services using a similar syntax.
Two features in one night? This feels good.

Anche qui recita un pò come nel post sotto… due righe di codice e …

Buona visione