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 that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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






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