On the Renesys blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml it says that 3500 prefixes disappeared. 1% of the global table seems a lot, especially considering that according to AfriNIC Egypt only has 122 IPv4 and 7 IPv6 prefixes. What gives?
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
On the Renesys blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml it says that 3500 prefixes disappeared. 1% of the global table seems a lot, especially considering that according to AfriNIC Egypt only has 122 IPv4 and 7 IPv6 prefixes.
What gives?
de-aggregates not-afrinic-region blocks geo-located blocks (potentially mis-located?) customer blocks of the 7 isp's in region lots of slosh there...
~25 million people live in Cairo alone, many under the age of 30 given another 'arrival' is said to occur every 10 minutes. When we were there earlier this month most had cell phones and wi-fi spots were available all around the area that is being streamed on CNN right now. As a society they are very social and a fair amount of their marketing materials have shifted to email addresses vs. phone/fax contacts. Internet access is a big part of their society. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>wrote:
On the Renesys blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml it says that 3500 prefixes disappeared. 1% of the global table seems a lot, especially considering that according to AfriNIC Egypt only has 122 IPv4 and 7 IPv6 prefixes.
What gives?
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