Thanks Jack, I'm interested in such governmental actions around the world and the ways that it will be worked around.
Frank On 1/27/2011 9:06 PM, Jack Unger wrote: > Sorry for the OT post. I thought some might be interested. > > *************************************************************************************************** > Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented > in > Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service > providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical > European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for > now. > But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, > school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian > ISPs > for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. > Link > Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers > and > partners are, for the moment, off the air. > > At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous > withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing > table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no > valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet > traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet > addresses are now unreachable, worldwide. > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
