On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks 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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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. > I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly announced that the Internet would be restored soon, but at present neither my monitoring nor http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ confirms this. Regards Marshall > 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 withdrawn : 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 >> >> >> > > >
