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Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:34:17 -0500
On 2/16/11 6:10 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Baker wrote:I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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.
i'll have to check if the .eg servers were ever taken off-line.resolution of .com (beyond local caches) would have been pointless post-prefix withdrawal, but if the claim is that local ix routing remained possible, so non-cached .eg resolution was successful from outside of the eun to any other egyptian provider net, then if there is data to support the claim, it will be interesting. i'll ask.
-e
Current thread:
- NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Joly MacFie (Feb 15)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Marshall Eubanks (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Martin Millnert (Feb 16)
- Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Franck Martin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Doug Barton (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Fred Baker (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Steven Bellovin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Steve Gibbard (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Fred Baker (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Randy Bush (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Franck Martin (Feb 16)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Joel Jaeggli (Feb 21)
- Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet) Randy Bush (Feb 21)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Martin Millnert (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Marshall Eubanks (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Richard Barnes (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Mounir Mohamed (Feb 16)
- Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet Martin Millnert (Feb 16)