On 15 Jan 2019, at 17:03, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes@gmail.com> wrote:
Whole countries falling off the net? BUT TEH TOP POSTINGS!!!
I'm a little frustrated with the very existence of that thread.
Trying to constructively change the topic to something more interesting lol.
I guess the concerning thing to me is that the whole point of packet switched networks was to provide resilience in the face of e.g. civil disorder.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:50 AM Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk <mailto:colinj@gt86car.org.uk>> wrote: sorry top posting, yup whatsup doesnt work in harare. phone circuits land ok though and checked ok
col
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On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:42, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes@gmail.com <mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes@gmail.com <mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com>> wrote:
So @meileaben on twitter this morning notes:
Many #Zimbabwe <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zimbabwe?src=hash> Internet routes withdrawn around 9:30 UTC amidst civil unrest in the country. near-realtime on #RIPEstat <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPEstat?src=hash> here: https://stat.ripe.net/ZW <https://t.co/sgJ4O3310z> #OpenNetworkIntelligence <https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenNetworkIntelligence?src=hash> #ZimbabweShutdown <https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZimbabweShutdown?src=hash>
https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136 <https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136>
wondering if anyone here has additional info on that. Looing at stat.ripe.net/ZW <http://stat.ripe.net/ZW> now it looks as though one (out of an original 18, current 9) ASN has recovered, but kind of curious as to what exactly happened there.
So Bloomberg notes that a number of ISPs were shut down to quell online protest https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-z... <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights> but are there no work-arounds available, if implemented?
zimbabwe situation link below re telecom problems https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violen... <https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violent-protests-report/> I was back in Zim myself last month as well to see family children, internet was working well then inc whats up, mobile and adsl. I wonder how they block social media sites/whats up, is it null routing on peering cores or filtering since did not see filtering in place from ZIM<>UK last month... Colin