Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

[Larry Stites <ncnet () sbcglobal net>]

Thank you Charles


on 1/28/11 12:52 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote:

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> On 01/28/2011 12:36 PM, George Bonser wrote:
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> > > From: Jake Khuon [mailto:khuon () neebu net]
> > > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM
> > > To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> > > Cc: NANOG list
> > > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think it does not matter.  Censorship is censorship.  (So much for
> > > "routing around it".)
> >
> >
> > I think it would be pretty hard to actually cut off communications when the
> > telephone system is still working.  You can move a lot of email by dialup
> > UUCP if you wanted to.
>
> Right. In a government regulated monopoly telcom carrier.
>
> > I am guessing that satellite internet still works
>
> If people can't afford to eat, I doubt they can afford satellite internet.
>
>  and landline dialup to a modem outside the country still works.
>
> This presumes people have long distance plans.
>
>   And there's always static routes :)
>
> To what? If everyone has dropped BGP sessions how are you as an end user
> going to setup static routes? Unless there are no firewalls and
> everything is wide open how would you reach gateways?
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