[136029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jan 31 18:28:00 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <4D42C552.30902@ripe.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:26:42 -0500
To: Mirjam Kuehne <mir@ripe.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
> Hi,
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> We did some analysis of the situation in Egypt using the RIPEstat =
toolbox (please note, this is a prototype and we're not sure how it will =
handle a big load):
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http://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_ana=
lysis
This - specifically http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ -=20
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shows another big spike today, which is presumably when Noor.net was =
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Marshall
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> Mirjam Kuehne
> RIPE NCC
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> Carlos Alcantar wrote:
>> Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not =
totally lights out...
>> Carlos Alcantar
>> Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San =
Francisco, CA. 94080
>> Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com =
/ www.race.com
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, =
January 27, 2011 11:46 PM
>> To: Joel Jaeggli
>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
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>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> =
wrote:
>>> On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote:
>>>> Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I =
did some Google searches and that region has had large scale disruptions =
in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the Suez canal and =
were hit.
>>> my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off =
the cable in egypt just pass through.
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d
>>>> isr
>>>> uption
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>> To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther =
Africa
>> - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-)
>> Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the =
vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt:
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
>> I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has =
happened here.
>> - - ferg
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>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
>> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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