[165921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sudan disconnected from the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Wed Sep 25 20:49:44 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Tammy Firefly <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:43:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5243827E.6070807@wiztech.biz>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We make Ku-band backpacks for this type of scenario. I would give it 12-18
hours before you see CNN light up with live feeds.. I didn't even KNOW
this was happening prior to them doing this. Seems like cutting off access
would alert a lot more folks than some people wrecking Sudan over fuel
subsidies??
Doesn't look like it's been picked up by CNN substantially yet, but I
imagine we'll get "breaking news" soon enough. Would be interesting to see
if it was a forced drop or did they actually just take a pair of scissors
and murder the internets?
On 9/25/13 5:40 PM, "Tammy Firefly" <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz> wrote:
>On 9/25/13 18:38:09, Warren Bailey wrote:
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>>http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudan-security-clashes-subs
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>> y-protesters-20360418
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>> On 9/25/13 5:34 PM, "Tammy Firefly" <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz> wrote:
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>>> On 9/25/13 18:29:58, Jeff Kell wrote:
>>>> On 9/25/2013 8:25 PM, Tammy Firefly wrote:
>>>>> with the old fashioned pair of diagonal cutters applied to fiber?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, interesting to know if it was cut fiber, pressure on the inside
>>>> providers (or their feeds), or pressure on the outside providers.
>>>>
>>>> Traceroutes lend any clue?
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>
>>> If the government did it, I guarantee it was cut fiber. That makes it
>>> difficult to quickly restore. One has to wonder whats going on there
>>> right now that they dont want the world to know about?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>=20
>
>Then its quite likely the government cut the fiber to cover that up :)
>wouldnt surprise me if they cut it in multiple places as well.
>
