Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

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On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote:
>
> > I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were 
> > withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes.
>
> Per the NYT article, the issue was the Egyptian "Intranet" -- people couldn't contact other sites within Egypt by 
> host name, even though the routes were up, because they couldn't resolve .eg, .com, etc.
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb