[136021] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jan 31 17:15:50 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <33496563.960.1296250642067.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:14:47 -0500
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian =
stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
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withdrawn :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...
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> ----- 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
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> On 2011-01-28, at 11:33, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>>> I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost.
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>> I believe that was the case for Burma, for example.
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> 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.
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> Joe
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