[AfriNIC-rpd] Fwd: [ncc-services-wg] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC publishes case study of youtube.com hijack

[Adiel A. Akplogan]

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>From: "Daniel Karrenberg" <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net>
>To: <ripe-list at ripe.net>,
>         <routing-wg at ripe.net>,
>         <ncc-announce at ripe.net>,
>         <ncc-services-wg at ripe.net>
>Cc: "'Shadi Mousa'" <shadi.mousa at kulacom.jo>,
>         "Nakhalah, Moh'd" <mohammad.nakhalah at kulacom.jo>
>Subject: [ncc-services-wg] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC publishes case 
>study of youtube.com hijack
>Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:12:12 +0200
>
>
>[Apologies for duplicate e-mails]
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>As you may be aware from recent news reports, traffic to the 
>youtube.com website was 'hijacked' on a global scale on Sunday, 24 
>February 2008. The incident was a result of the unauthorised 
>announcement of the prefix 208.65.153.0/24 and caused the popular 
>video sharing website to become unreachable from most, if not all, 
>of the Internet.
>
>The RIPE NCC conducted an analysis into how this incident was seen 
>and tracked by the RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service (RIS) and 
>has published a case study at:
><http://www.ripe.net/news/study-youtube-hijacking.html>http://www.ripe.net/news/study-youtube-hijacking.html
>
>The RIPE NCC RIS is a service that collects Border Gateway Protocol 
>(BGP) routing information from roughly 600 peers at 16 Internet 
>Exchange Points (IXPs) across the world. Data is stored in near 
>real-time and can be instantly queried by anyone to provide multiple 
>views of routing activity for any point in time.
>
>The RIS forms part of the RIPE NCC's suite of Information Services, 
>which together provide a deeper insight into the workings of the 
>Internet. The RIPE NCC is a neutral and impartial organisation, and 
>commercial interests therefore do not influence the data collected.
>
>The RIPE NCC Information Services suite also includes the Test 
>Traffic Measurement (TTM) service, the DNS Monitoring (DNSMON) 
>service and Hostcount. All of these services are available to 
>anyone, and most of them are offered free of charge.
>
>More information about RIPE NCC Information Services can be found at:
><http://is-portal.ripe.net>http://is-portal.ripe.net
>
>Regards,
>Daniel Karrenberg
>Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC
>
>
>
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