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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Feb 16 18:12:46 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5E883CE1-AE35-41B6-971B-F40A36730771@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:10:17 -0500
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much =
effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective =
was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes.
Per the NYT article, the issue was the Egyptian "Intranet" -- people =
couldn't contact other sites within Egypt by host name, even though the =
routes were up, because they couldn't resolve .eg, .com, etc.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
