It was a scary thing that all the characters wanted to avoid. In the 1979 movie The Black Hole, what went into the black hole didn’t come out. Associated Press: Pakistan Causes Worldwide YouTube Outage.Network World: YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem.
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: How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline (and how to make sure it never happens again).But if you need a quick review, check out these resources: Because plenty of articles are available that discuss the incident, I won’t go into detail. If you haven’t already heard what happened with the YouTube incident, it’s a very interesting story from an IP routing and troubleshooting perspective. That’s why you should understand what a black hole route is, how it can help you - and how it could hurt you. While you may not have a network as large or as critical as YouTube to manage, unexpected network downtime or lost network traffic is never a good thing. That mistake involved a black hole route accidentally distributed around the world. The entire YouTube network recently went down, across the globe, for about two hours - thanks to a mistake made by an ISP in Pakistan. That's why you should understand what a black hole route is, how it can help you - and how it could hurt you. Black hole routes: The good, the bad, and the ugly