Now if we could just get Nigeria and Romania to have an uprising the
Internet would be safe once again!
BTW. Great article this month in 2843$ '!=!<8"3 !+975 ! _856 8" Romania that
has more Western Union offices than New York has Starbucks all due to
Internet scams
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-----Original message-----
From: Stuart Pierce <spie...@avolve.net>
To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 13:03:26 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet
Well maybe some spam will stop, a little at least.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jack Unger <jun...@ask-wi.com>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:06:22 -0800
Sorry for the OT post. I thought some might be interested.
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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 Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no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.
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Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.
Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"
Serving the WISP, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993
www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 jun...@ask-wi.com
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