Re: ASNs decimation in ZW this morning

[Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>]

> On 15 Jan 2019, at 17:03, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes () gmail com> wrote:
>
>
> Whole countries falling off the net?  BUT TEH TOP POSTINGS!!!
>
> I'm a little frustrated with the very existence of that thread.
>
> Trying to constructively change the topic to something more interesting lol. 
>
> I guess the concerning thing to me is that the whole point of packet switched networks was to provide resilience in 
> the face of e.g. civil disorder. 
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:50 AM Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk <mailto:colinj () gt86car org uk>> wrote:
> sorry top posting,
> yup whatsup doesnt work in harare.
> phone circuits land ok though and checked ok
>
> col
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:42, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes () gmail com <mailto:cfillekes () gmail com>> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes () gmail com <mailto:cfillekes () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> > So @meileaben on twitter this morning notes:
> >
> > Many #Zimbabwe <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zimbabwe?src=hash> Internet routes withdrawn around 9:30 UTC amidst 
> > civil unrest in the country. near-realtime on #RIPEstat <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPEstat?src=hash> here: 
> > https://stat.ripe.net/ZW  <https://t.co/sgJ4O3310z> #OpenNetworkIntelligence 
> > <https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenNetworkIntelligence?src=hash> #ZimbabweShutdown 
> > <https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZimbabweShutdown?src=hash>
> >
> > https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136 <https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136>
> >
> > wondering if anyone here has additional info on that.  Looing at stat.ripe.net/ZW <http://stat.ripe.net/ZW> now it 
> > looks as though one (out of an original 18, current 9) ASN has recovered, but kind of curious as to what exactly 
> > happened there. 
> >
> > So Bloomberg notes that a number of ISPs were shut down to quell online protest
> > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights 
> > <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights> 
> > but are there no work-arounds available, if implemented? 



zimbabwe situation link below re telecom problems
https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violent-protests-report/ 
<https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violent-protests-report/>


I was back in Zim myself last month as well to see family children, internet was working well then inc whats up, mobile 
and adsl.

I wonder how they block social media sites/whats up, is it null routing on peering cores or filtering since did not see 
filtering in place from ZIM<>UK last month...

Colin