[99768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Myanmar Internet turned off
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Oct 3 23:17:32 2007
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0710032008y684d45e9u123daff6e57431f3@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Steve Gibbard" <scg@gibbard.org>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:14:45 -0400
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> On 10/4/07, Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> wrote:
>
>> Given the 6 hour sampling, I have to assume that there have been
>> other short term re-appearances of routes to Burma.
>> Whether this is due to internal struggles, accidents, or urgent needs
>> for data transfer I cannot say.
>
> I believe the NYT said something about embassies, international
> organizations and such being allowed to retain their dedicated
> satellite connectivity?
That would be hard to detect using BGP. Also hard to detect would be
the status of VPNs on the same circuits as are used for Internet
transit.
Regards
