[137427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet blocked in Algeria?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Cowie)
Sat Feb 12 18:20:44 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110212230535.GA98070@mikea.ath.cx>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:20:39 -0500
From: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:05 PM, mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Joly MacFie wrote:
>> Any confirmation of internet blocking?
>>
>> http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=26849
>>
>> As massive street demonstrations are met with widespread violence in
>> Algeria, the country is reporting that many Facebook accounts have been
>> deleted or blocked by the government, in an effort to stifle protests
>> against President Abdelaziz Boutifleka, activists on Twitter reported around
>> midday in the country.
>> They also said that the government is working fast to cut off all Internet
>> providers in the country.
>
> At least some websites, though not all of them, that are linked off
> <http://www.erepublic.org/egovincountriesa/algeria.html>
> seem to be working OK. I grant they're all government, but they're up
> and serving requests.
>
Looks up to us, with the exception of a few websites. Routes stable,
inbound traceroutes unremarkable, lots and lots of DZ-hosted content
available.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/watching-algeria.shtml
best, --jim
