[99777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Myanmar Internet turned off
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Oct 4 05:09:14 2007
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:07:23 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>,
Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3BA7EC4B-DF51-4011-9A54-1917627762BA@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:14:45PM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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> >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
the SOI links are still working.
--bill
