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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 9:41 am
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boberonicus
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Originally Posted by BiziBB
sent out a misleading DNS address for YouTube as a 'faster' route
DNS does not influence routing decisions. As I understand it, the ISP advertised a BGP route to YouTube. In other words, if you want to get to the autonomous system(s) associated with youtube.com, "send all your traffic to me!"
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