On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: > 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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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.
Collateral damage from all of this, as detailed in http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/ is that the Arabic script top-level domain .masr (مصر) has been unavailable since the 27th, since it is is operated by NTRA of Egypt. Regards Marshall > > 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 withdrawn : 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >
