[inquiry] Internet/cell in Teheran down?
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out. Anyone hear of anything? -steve
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Steve Pirk<orion@pirk.com> wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything?
Nothing specific on traffic *getting out* of Iran, but the official Iranian News Service (IRNA: Islamic Republic News Agency) website is certainly available the web ( at least the website loads): http://www.irna.ir/en/ %tracert irna.ir Tracing route to irna.ir [81.12.51.146] over a maximum of 30 hops: [snip] 6 36 ms 19 ms 30 ms pos-0-8-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.78] 7 25 ms 23 ms 56 ms pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.54] 8 27 ms 47 ms 21 ms Tenge13-3.br02.sjo01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.179.25] 9 459 ms 409 ms 409 ms tci.pos3-5.ar03.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.13.30] 10 428 ms 409 ms 409 ms 217.218.155.202 11 401 ms 409 ms 409 ms 217.218.127.246 12 384 ms 409 ms 337 ms vlan625.orion.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir [62.220.96.113] 13 400 ms 510 ms 412 ms vl637.orion.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir [62.220.99.1] 14 384 ms 409 ms 409 ms 62.220.100.10 15 * 366 ms 409 ms fe0-20.selena.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir [62.220.101.182] 16 397 ms 367 ms 347 ms 87.107.82.3 17 361 ms 340 ms 416 ms 81.12.50.2 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * ^C - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFKNEuGq1pz9mNUZTMRAvaoAKDhTB+F6gxUydKSQ+PyNMdWd7GDSACeKtNY 5oIZm2FC+rvN0ij97ovp0Oo= =YTJ5 -----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/
I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect. Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything? -steve
Maybe there's just a lot of congestion and it's not actually down? Happens here (Australia) on some mobile networks at large events - just not enough bandwidth to go around and so you can't make calls and sms are delayed. Given that there's a lot of protests etc and a lot of people out and about in Tehran it could be similar. MMC Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect.
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything? -steve
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/13/cell-phone-service-down-after-di... On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft<mmc@internode.com.au> wrote:
Maybe there's just a lot of congestion and it's not actually down?
Happens here (Australia) on some mobile networks at large events - just not enough bandwidth to go around and so you can't make calls and sms are delayed. Given that there's a lot of protests etc and a lot of people out and about in Tehran it could be similar.
MMC
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect.
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything? -steve
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Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything?
Given the recent election and the unrest that is also being reported, I'd bet that it was unplugged or turned off, not that it is down. Or, is there another Operator's Group for that world region? Maybe the discussion simply hasn't filtered over yet. Reese
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:47:57PM -0500, Reese wrote:
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything?
Given the recent election and the unrest that is also being reported, I'd bet that it was unplugged or turned off, not that it is down. Or, is there another Operator's Group for that world region? Maybe the discussion simply hasn't filtered over yet.
the menog lists require you to subscribe to view the archives. (So this could be redundant to content there.. i am not on their list). I checked one ISP I know about in Tehran and they appear to be up. This doesn't seem to be an like what was seen with Myanmar(Burma) turning off the tubes. (At least not yet). I'm keeping an eye on things, if people in those parts of the world need some backup dns or other things, I am sure there are plenty of people here that can help. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Jared Mauch wrote: > the menog lists require you to subscribe to > view the archives. (So this could be redundant to content > there.. i am not on their list). No, this conversation is not also occuring on the MENOG list. -Bill
On Jun 13, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:47:57PM -0500, Reese wrote:
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything?
Given the recent election and the unrest that is also being reported, I'd bet that it was unplugged or turned off, not that it is down. Or, is there another Operator's Group for that world region? Maybe the discussion simply hasn't filtered over yet.
the menog lists require you to subscribe to view the archives. (So this could be redundant to content there.. i am not on their list).
I am on MENOG. There has been no discussion of this topic there, at least so far. Regards Marshall
I checked one ISP I know about in Tehran and they appear to be up. This doesn't seem to be an like what was seen with Myanmar(Burma) turning off the tubes. (At least not yet).
I'm keeping an eye on things, if people in those parts of the world need some backup dns or other things, I am sure there are plenty of people here that can help.
- Jared
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Paul Ferguson -
Reese -
Steve Pirk