What to do when your Billion User Website goes down: Youtube Outage

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TeeJayHoward

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An Internet expert explained that Sunday's problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the world's fastest route to YouTube.
Uhh... What? I didn't even know it was possible to manually introduce metrics when routing. I thought all of that was automated.

How I thought it worked:
Router A to B: Hey.
Router B to A: Hey.
Router A: That response took 10ms.

How it apparently works:
Router A to B: Hey.
Router B to A: Hey. This took 0.000001ms.
Router A: OK.