[136025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jan 31 17:52:38 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik10sQzAz8imCU2xmcvUkvc+jHX748qW24Sk5eD@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:51:04 -0500
To: "Danny O'Brien" <danny@spesh.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks =
<tme@americafree.tv>wrote:
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>> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian =
stock
>> exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
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> Yep, Noor is now down.
Collateral damage from all of this, as detailed in =20
http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/
is that the Arabic script top-level domain .masr (=D9=85=D8=B5=D8=B1)=20
has been unavailable since the 27th, since it is is operated by NTRA of =
Egypt.
Regards
Marshall
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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...
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> d.
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>> DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is =
definitely
>> withdrawn :
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>> dig www.noor.net
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>> ; <<>> 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
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>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.noor.net. IN A
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>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> www.noor.net. 503 IN CNAME noor.net.
>> noor.net. 503 IN A 217.139.227.20
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>> show ip bgp 217.139.227.20
>> % Network not in table
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>> Marshall
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>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
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>>> 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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