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 that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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
