[165922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sudan disconnected from the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Wed Sep 25 20:53:07 2013
In-Reply-To: <5243827E.6070807@wiztech.biz>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:15:48 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: Tammy Firefly <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thats disappointing. I was imagining some networking trick with which Sudan
was being disconnected (prefix hijacking, etc) - didnt strike me that this
was also an option available! :-)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tammy Firefly <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>wrote:
> On 9/25/13 18:38:09, Warren Bailey wrote:
> >
> http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudan-security-clashes-subsid
> > y-protesters-20360418
> >
> > On 9/25/13 5:34 PM, "Tammy Firefly" <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz> wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
>
