[136303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Feb 2 08:26:36 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=FFwhrNgq_VOxWhND=gBBWcVa_3tLdL-=iDsTu@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:25:42 -0500
To: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz <teoruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> =
wrote:
> > 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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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
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> Looks like it's coming back: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt
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> ~2500 prefixes being announced now.
> --
> teo - http://www.teoruiz.com
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> "Res publica non dominetur"
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> Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC. Basically all major providers are =
back, full status quo ante (modulo reagg), major sites are up.
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http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/egypt-returns-to-the-internet.shtml
It's not just BGP - DNS (based on the samples I have been testing) seems =
to be fully back too.=20
Regards
Marshall
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> Good thoughts go out to the guys in the EG NOCs this morning. Nanog =
wants to hear your war stories some day over a cup of tea.
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> --jim
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