[137433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet blocked in Algeria?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Feb 12 21:27:22 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0UUnr51WknAkq+18Pfsqm+rs7j0WXUkG8BEOo@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:26:20 -0500
To: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 12, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jim Cowie wrote:
> 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?
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>>> http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=3D26849
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Looks up to us, with the exception of a few websites. Routes stable,
> inbound traceroutes unremarkable, lots and lots of DZ-hosted content
> available.
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> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/watching-algeria.shtml
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I have received several reports of Twitter and Facebook outages in =
Algeria, but not general Internet blockage.
The Telegraph has this report
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<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/83=
20772/Algeria-shuts-down-internet-and-Facebook-as-protest-mounts.html>
or
http://bit.ly/f97OmX
which talks vaguely of Internet outages.
On the other side of both the coin and the world, there is this
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http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/bloggers-celebrate-cuba-unblocks-their=
-sites
"Bloggers celebrate as Cuba unblocks their site"
Maybe this is connected to the new fiber optic cable to Venezuela, it =
seems to have caught everyone by surprise.=20
Regards
Marshall
> best, --jim
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