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Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
From: "Danny O'Brien" <danny () spesh com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:41:02 -0800
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>wrote:
As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
Yep, Noor is now down. Those on the ground with Noor DSL in Cairo contacted their front line support, and they're saying "technical problems" that will take a few hours to fix. Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here: http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt I'm staring at looking glass output to check these remaining routes, and that seems unfair on both those offering those free services, and my own sanity... d.
DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn : dig www.noor.net ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.noor.net ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15709 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.noor.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.noor.net. 503 IN CNAME noor.net. noor.net. 503 IN A 217.139.227.20 show ip bgp 217.139.227.20 % Network not in table Marshall On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Franck Martin wrote:If I'm correct, in 2000 in Fiji, the main fiber optic cable from thenational provider to the international provider was sabotaged, cutting all communications. Fortunately an Alcatel team was on the island (SCC commissioning) with the right tools and could splice it back in a few hours, otherwise Fiji would have gone dark for days...----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Abley" <jabley () hopcount ca> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme () americafree tv> Cc: nanog () nanog org Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 7:32:07 AM Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt On 2011-01-28, at 11:33, Marshall Eubanks wrote:On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost.I believe that was the case for Burma, for example.It was not the case in Nepal in 2005 though, if I remember correctly. Inthat case connectivity to the outside was maintained, but access to that connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed.Joe
Current thread:
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt, (continued)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Alastair Johnson (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Charles N Wyble (Jan 28)
- RE: Connectivity status for Egypt George Bonser (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Jorge Amodio (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Jeff Johnstone (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Joe Abley (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Franck Martin (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Danny O'Brien (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Rob Thomas (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Andree Toonk (Jan 31)
- RE: Connectivity status for Egypt Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Alastair Johnson (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Christopher Morrow (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Christopher Morrow (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Alexander Harrowell (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt jim deleskie (Jan 28)