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Fwd: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Feb 2 11:09:50 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:08:58 -0500
To: NANOG Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> From: "Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com>
> Date: February 2, 2011 11:03:23 AM EST
> To: <tme@americafree.tv>
> Subject: FW: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)
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> Please forward to nanog.
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> To: Ahmed Maged (amaged)
> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)
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> From: "Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com>
> Date: February 2, 2011 10:51:08 AM EST
> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@americafree.tv>, "Jim Cowie" =
<cowie@renesys.com>
> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)
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> Hi Guys,
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> I read most of the thread and I'll try to confirm what I can.
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> Obviously, we are back online and yes it was decided by the government =
to
> take the country offline.
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> They first started blocking twitter and rate limited/blocked facebook =
but
> later they just decided, everything must go.
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> Two days ago, Google and Twitter came up with a way to help people =
tweet
> using land lines.
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> Some international WAN links are functioning and that's because of how =
the
> switch was killed. International links go to the same place in either =
Cairo
> or Alexandria (Telco Exchange).
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> We do have a couple of IXs, but there is just no real interesting =
local
> traffic, everyone wants facebook and twitter. Which is all =
international
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> Everyone just stayed home because of Army imposed Curfew so the =
internet and
> business was just on PAUSE and still is.
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> Mobile phones were also off for two days but later they were brought =
back.
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> The reason why they decided to do that is because the whole protest =
was
> organized on Facebook initially, people agreed to go to Tahrir square
> (liberation square) downtown together and a lot followed the groups
> invitation.
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> Later on, people joined despite all the attempts to block the internet =
and
> communication.
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> Some consider this act as a crime because they cut the tongues of =
people
> this way and the government sees it as a step to stop the =
demonstrations.
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> Huge businesses will be affected, one small example is international =
call
> centers.
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> You will all see clearly that we have bad bad aggregation, if you can
> analyze this and write a note about it, I'll be able to pass it to the =
right
> people when we get life back in order.
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> In case things go bad again, we will really need international dial up =
so if
> you can help setting this up, it will be appreciated.
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> I have to go now to stand in front of my building to protect it (as
> everyone) because thugs and thieves were let loose on the streets (by =
the
> government).
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> Regards,
> Ahmed Maged
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> > From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:25:42 -0500
> > To: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
> > Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
> > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
> >
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly =
announced
> >>> that the Internet would be restored soon, but at present neither =
my
> >>
> >> Looks like it's coming back: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt
> >>
> >> ~2500 prefixes being announced now.
> >> --
> >> teo - http://www.teoruiz.com
> >>
> >> "Res publica non dominetur"
> >>
> >> Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC. Basically all major providers are =
back, full
> >> status quo ante (modulo reagg), major sites are up.
> >>
> >> =
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.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> --jim
> >>
> >
> >
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