Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Richard M. Smith:

> So a government order blocking an entire Web site isn't a cyberattack?  If
> some criminal-types from Russia DoSed YouTube it would be front page news.

Well, it's not just someone in Pakistan announcing the prefix.  In order
to have global impact, a Tier-1 had to put it into their view of the
table.  It's not that everyone peers directly with the Pakistanis.

I guess you'd probably have seen similar routing leaks from German ISPs,
except that over here, blocking tends to be based on /32s, which should
not propagate very far.
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