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

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

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 I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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