ah On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote: > >> I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; >> that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the >> withdrawal of BGP prefixes. > > Per the NYT article, the issue was the Egyptian "Intranet" -- people couldn't > contact other sites within Egypt by host name, even though the routes were > up, because they couldn't resolve .eg, .com, etc. > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > > > > >
