Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Pakistan, YouTube, outage Category : Miscellaneous
Some of you may have experienced problems with YouTube last night. The site was down for over an hour and it looks as though Pakistan may have caused the outage by accident.
Pakistan has become the latest country to ban the popular, Google-owned, video sharing site.
The country ordered ISPs to block the video-sharing website because of content deemed offensive to Islam. But mistakes meant that no one could access the site for nearly two hours.
A statement from Google was released detailing the problem,
“Traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous internet protocols, and many users around the world could not access our site,"
"We have determined that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the internet community to prevent this from happening again."
Read the full story on the BBC.
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