[135784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Fri Jan 28 16:41:06 2011
From: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:40:42 +0000
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On Friday 28 January 2011 21:22:55 Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christopher Morrow
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> <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net> wrote:
> >> For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET
> >> PIP).
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> > <cough> that's the MCI PIP</cough>...
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> probably the .EG parts of that PIP are provided on a partner network
> still ... I don't think they have build of their own gear into the
> country, and there's a high likelihood that if state-security sees
> 'forbidden' traffic on those links they'll request traffic shutdown on
> that network as well.
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> If you operate a network in the affected country I'm sure you'll have
> to comply with LEA demands...
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> -chris
It's ironic that in 1991, the Soviet coup leaders had the international voi=
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gateway shut down but left the Internet link up (who cares about some weird=
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thing eggheads chat over?), but now, dictators in trouble pull all the BGP=
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announcements but leave the PSTN up. Who cares about some old thing your mo=
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uses?
Not impressed by US journalists asking why the WH press secretary can't ord=
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Vodafone to turn their GSM net back on, though. 1) it's not them who would =
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to say no to the nice man from Central State Security with his electric sho=
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baton, 2) VF.eg is half-owned by the Egyptian government...
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The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to=
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lists complaining about them
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