On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly announced that the Internet would be restored soon, but at present neither my monitoring nor http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ confirms this. Regards Marshall
DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn :
dig www.noor.net
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.noor.net ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15709 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.noor.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.noor.net. 503 IN CNAME noor.net. noor.net. 503 IN A 217.139.227.20
show ip bgp 217.139.227.20 % Network not in table
Marshall
On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
If I'm correct, in 2000 in Fiji, the main fiber optic cable from the national provider to the international provider was sabotaged, cutting all communications. Fortunately an Alcatel team was on the island (SCC commissioning) with the right tools and could splice it back in a few hours, otherwise Fiji would have gone dark for days...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Abley" <jabley@hopcount.ca> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@americafree.tv> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 7:32:07 AM Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
On 2011-01-28, at 11:33, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost.
I believe that was the case for Burma, for example.
It was not the case in Nepal in 2005 though, if I remember correctly. In that case connectivity to the outside was maintained, but access to that connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed.
Joe