[53905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Dec 2 17:25:28 2002
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:36:20 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021202215557.12241.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >> fyi, all countries in africa are ip connected. dunno how big your
> >> hands are, but there are over 50 countries in africa.
> >
> >Pardon me for not counting "allocated" addresses as IP connectivity.
>
> You're pardoned, but just barely. Try some traceroutes, and you'll
> find that every country in Africa does indeed have some kind of IP
> connectivity.
Try finding some IP connectivity while in Nigeria. You would be
hard-pressed, even if you are willing to pay enormous $$.
> There seem to be a lot of ISPs who get little slices of IP from
> satellite carriers like emperion.net in Denmark. Much of the 419 spam
> I get from Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and other west African
> countries originates in cybercafes with satellite links.
Correction... *very* *few* satellite links.
Alex
