YouTube Hijacking: A RIPE NCC RIS case study
Published: March 6th, 2008
The recent outage affecting YouTube caused a lot of discussions in the technical community. But there were also a lot of reports published which didn’t cover the real details about what happened and why it could have been prevented.
The RIPE NCC has recently published a case study of the events which gives a detailed inside view of the event using existing tools provided by RIPE.
Among other information, like a detailed time line of the events, the guys at RIPE also provide the following video which illustrates different stages of the outages using BGPlay:
You can read the case study here.