[165926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sudan disconnected from the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Wed Sep 25 21:16:56 2013
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:16:18 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Tammy Firefly <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <52437EF2.20801@wiztech.biz>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/25/13 5:25 PM, Tammy Firefly wrote:
> On 9/25/13 18:18:04, Glen Kent wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The report from renesys states that
>>
>> "We initially stated that Sudan’s outage began at 12:47 UTC because that
>> was when virtually all Sudanese routed networks were withdrawn from the
>> global routing table"
>>
>> http://www.renesys.com/2013/09/internet-blackout-sudan/
>>
>> If its a deliberate action to remove Sudan from the Internet then what
>> exactly would the ISPs in Sudan have done? Drop their peering sessions with
>> the three International gateways? How were the "Sudanese routed networks
>> withdrawn"?
>>
>> Glen
>>
>
> with the old fashioned pair of diagonal cutters applied to fiber?
when you have the guns you normally just make a phone call...
There's no reason to destroy your infrastructure just to deny the usage
of it.
>
