-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wrote:
On twitter (follow the #jan25 and #jan28 hash tags), there are many reports of loss of internet connectivity in Egypt. Apparently cell phones and land lines are still working.
Of course, the assumption there is that this is connected to the large protests expected tomorrow in Egypt.
The U.S Embassy in Cairo website is also unreachable, as well as the main Egyptian Governmental portal: %ping www.egypt.gov.eg Pinging www.egypt.gov.eg [81.21.104.81] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 81.21.104.81: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), %tracert cairo.usembassy.gov Tracing route to cairo.usembassy.gov [62.140.73.207] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 4 ms 2 ms 1 ms 62.140.73.207 [snip] 7 37 ms 27 ms 28 ms ix-1-1-0-0.tcore1.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [216.6.12.25] 8 247 ms 204 ms 205 ms if-2-2.tcore2.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [66.110.59.2] 9 226 ms 199 ms 204 ms if-8-1508.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [64.86.252.74] 10 289 ms 301 ms 219 ms if-2-2.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [216.6.87.2] 11 190 ms 252 ms 204 ms if-6-871.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [216.6.51.58] 12 197 ms 204 ms 203 ms if-11-1-0-1411.core1.PV1-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.13] 13 229 ms 229 ms 236 ms ix-9-0-0.core1.PV1-Paris.as6453.net [195.219.215.38] 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * ^C %ping cairo.usembassy.gov Pinging cairo.usembassy.gov [62.140.73.207] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 62.140.73.207: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), % Information related to '62.140.73.0 - 62.140.73.255' inetnum: 62.140.73.0 - 62.140.73.255 netname: EG-NMC descr: AW-NMC descr: For any abuse complain contact abuse@nile-online.com country: EG admin-c: IM217-AFRINIC tech-c: IA119-AFRINIC tech-c: IM217-AFRINIC tech-c: OM2093-AFRINIC status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: O-MAHMOUD remarks: data has been transferred from RIPE Whois Database 20050221 source: AFRINIC # Filtered parent: 62.140.64.0 - 62.140.127.255 role: IP Address Manager address: top of address: pyramid address: sand address: sahara phone: +202 37611153 phone: +202 37611123 fax-no: +202 37607656 e-mail: ipadmin@nile-online.com e-mail: ashwadfy@nile-online.com e-mail: mhalim@nile-online.com admin-c: MS22-Afrinic admin-c: MMK1-AFRINIC tech-c: AS38-Afrinic nic-hdl: IM217-AFRINIC source: AFRINIC # Filtered role: IP Address Admin address: 15 Mohamed Hafez St., address: Mohandessin address: Giza address: Egypt phone: +202 37611153 phone: +202 37611123 fax-no: +202 37607656 e-mail: ipadmin@nile-online.com e-mail: ashwadfy@nile-online.com e-mail: mhalim@nile-online.com admin-c: MS22-Afrinic tech-c: AS38-Afrinic nic-hdl: IA119-AFRINIC remarks: data has been transferred from RIPE Whois Database 20050221 source: AFRINIC # Filtered person: Omar Mahmoud nic-hdl: OM2093-AFRINIC address: 15 Mohamed Hafez St., address: Mohandessin address: Giza address: Egypt address: Cairo address: Egypt e-mail: mispeng-core@etisalatdata.net phone: +202 7606677 fax-no: +202 7607656 remarks: For any abuse complain contact abuse@nile-online.com remarks: data has been transferred from RIPE Whois Database 20050221 mnt-by: O-MAHMOUD source: AFRINIC # Filtered - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNQhpoq1pz9mNUZTMRAkPsAKDQ4y08/I45IS/0XfNZ7kMbciQ61wCfQDJ9 Gm/f4cSJ9lY5BI4fBjdr+vU= =SRH3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/