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Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Georgios Theodoridis)
Fri Mar 2 02:26:03 2012
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:24:45 +0200
From: Georgios Theodoridis <gtheo@iti.gr>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I would like to deeply thank you all for your prompt response as well as
for your generous contribution and the most interesting information that
you shared.
Of course any further insight is still more than welcome.
Best regards,
George
On 03/02/2012 01:22 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis <gtheo@iti.gr
> <mailto:gtheo@iti.gr>> wrote:
>
> Has it been known the exact time of the incident?
> I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the
> mid-day of Saturday 25th but nothing more precise.
> We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly detection
> analysis that we are carrying out in our research centre.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> George
>
>
>
> Renesys published a brief writeup of the incident yesterday. We
> called it at 09:13 UTC on the 25th. Lots of interesting outage and
> transit-shift effects to see in the East African BGP data that day.
> We also report some shifts in latency based on active measurement, as
> everyone's traffic jumps onto the surviving connectivity through
> SEACOM. Kenya Data Networks (AS33770) did a particularly good job
> staying alive by virtue of their upstream provider diversity, kudos to
> them.
>
> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/02/east-african-cable-breaks.shtml
>
> best, --jim
