[136151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Feb 1 15:31:52 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <5EEA5622-9EDA-4FD6-B4BE-F4E2C812A271@americafree.tv>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:30:53 -0500
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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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I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly announced =
that the Internet would be restored soon, but at present neither my=20
monitoring nor http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ confirms this.=20
Regards
Marshall
> 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definitely withdrawn :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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