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From: "Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com> Date: February 2, 2011 11:03:23 AM EST To: <tme@americafree.tv> Subject: FW: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)

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From: "Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com> Date: February 2, 2011 10:51:08 AM EST To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@americafree.tv>, "Jim Cowie" <cowie@renesys.com> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt (update from Egypt)

Hi Guys,

I read most of the thread and I'll try to confirm what I can.

Obviously, we are back online and yes it was decided by the government to take the country offline.

They first started blocking twitter and rate limited/blocked facebook but later they just decided, everything must go.

Two days ago, Google and Twitter came up with a way to help people tweet using land lines.

Some international WAN links are functioning and that's because of how the switch was killed. International links go to the same place in either Cairo or Alexandria (Telco Exchange).

We do have a couple of IXs, but there is just no real interesting local traffic, everyone wants facebook and twitter. Which is all international

Everyone just stayed home because of Army imposed Curfew so the internet and business was just on PAUSE and still is.

Mobile phones were also off for two days but later they were brought back.

The reason why they decided to do that is because the whole protest was organized on Facebook initially, people agreed to go to Tahrir square (liberation square) downtown together and a lot followed the groups invitation.

Later on, people joined despite all the attempts to block the internet and communication.

Some consider this act as a crime because they cut the tongues of people this way and the government sees it as a step to stop the demonstrations.

Huge businesses will be affected, one small example is international call centers.

You will all see clearly that we have bad bad aggregation, if you can analyze this and write a note about it, I'll be able to pass it to the right people when we get life back in order.

In case things go bad again, we will really need international dial up so if you can help setting this up, it will be appreciated.

I have to go now to stand in front of my building to protect it (as everyone) because thugs and thieves were let loose on the streets (by the government).

Regards, Ahmed Maged

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From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:25:42 -0500 To: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz <teoruiz@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wrote:

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On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

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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

Looks like it's coming back: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt

~2500 prefixes being announced now. -- teo - http://www.teoruiz.com

"Res publica non dominetur"

Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC. Basically all major providers are back, full status quo ante (modulo reagg), major sites are up.

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/egypt-returns-to-the-internet.shtml

It's not just BGP - DNS (based on the samples I have been testing) seems to be fully back too.

Regards Marshall

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Good thoughts go out to the guys in the EG NOCs this morning. Nanog wants to hear your war stories some day over a cup of tea.

--jim