On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks <t...@americafree.tv>wrote:
> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock > exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet. > > Yep, Noor is now down. Those on the ground with Noor DSL in Cairo contacted their front line support, and they're saying "technical problems" that will take a few hours to fix. Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here: http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt I'm staring at looking glass output to check these remaining routes, and that seems unfair on both those offering those free services, and my own sanity... d. > DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely > withdrawn : > > dig www.noor.net > > ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.noor.net > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15709 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.noor.net. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > www.noor.net. 503 IN CNAME noor.net. > noor.net. 503 IN A 217.139.227.20 > > show ip bgp 217.139.227.20 > % Network not in table > > > Marshall > > > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > > > If I'm correct, in 2000 in Fiji, the main fiber optic cable from the > national provider to the international provider was sabotaged, cutting all > communications. Fortunately an Alcatel team was on the island (SCC > commissioning) with the right tools and could splice it back in a few hours, > otherwise Fiji would have gone dark for days... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joe Abley" <jab...@hopcount.ca> > > To: "Marshall Eubanks" <t...@americafree.tv> > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 7:32:07 AM > > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > > > > > > On 2011-01-28, at 11:33, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> > >>> I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost. > >> > >> I believe that was the case for Burma, for example. > > > > It was not the case in Nepal in 2005 though, if I remember correctly. In > that case connectivity to the outside was maintained, but access to that > connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > >