31 Jan
2011
31 Jan
'11
6:26 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Mirjam Kuehne wrote: > Hi, > > We did some analysis of the situation in Egypt using the RIPEstat toolbox (please note, this is a prototype and we're not sure how it will handle a big load): > > http://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_analysis This - specifically http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ - shows another big spike today, which is presumably when Noor.net was pulled. Marshall > > Mirjam Kuehne > RIPE NCC > > > Carlos Alcantar wrote: >> Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not totally lights out... >> Carlos Alcantar >> Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 >> Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / www.race.com >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM >> To: Joel Jaeggli >> Cc: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote: >>> On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote: >>>> Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I did some Google searches and that region has had large scale disruptions in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the Suez canal and were hit. >>> my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the cable in egypt just pass through. >>> >>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d >>>> isr >>>> uption >>>> >> To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther Africa >> - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-) >> Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg >> I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has happened here. >> - - ferg >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) >> wj8DBQFNQnQ0q1pz9mNUZTMRAoFQAKCE8P0wINouFWUvW9GFn7FR6XVmOwCdGV/i >> VzTaxnJQOPVqyY2bP8ZraDA= >> =daOC >> -----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/ > > >