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forgotusername on Nov 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How ...

Evil routing has been employed a whole bunch of times going back decades, most visibly a couple of years ago when IIRC Iran (?) started advertising bad routes for a bunch of big sites, including Google

apawloski on Nov 6, 2012 | [–]

Pakistan null routed YouTube and accidentally took a big chunk down around the world in 2007.

noselasd on Nov 6, 2012 | [–]

I can't find much information about Iran advertising bad routed, but China did: http://bgpmon.net/?p=282

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