Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

["Danny O'Brien" <danny () spesh com>]

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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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 withdrawn :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 the
> national 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. In
> that case connectivity to the outside was maintained, but access to that
> connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed.
> > Joe