Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-21 Thread Randy Bush
>>> I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much >>> effect >> what shutdown of egyptian domain names? >> randy, who has a server which serves them > there's an interesting point to be made about the geographic > administrative and political distribution of secondaries being >

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 2/16/11 5:37 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much >> effect > > what shutdown of egyptian domain names? > > randy, who has a server which serves them there's an interesting point to be made about the geographic administrative and political

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Randy Bush" > To: "Fred Baker" > Cc: "Franck Martin" , "North American Network Operators > Group" > Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 2:37:02 PM > Subject: Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egy

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Randy Bush
> I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much > effect what shutdown of egyptian domain names? randy, who has a server which serves them

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
ah On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > 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 that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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. >

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > 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 that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn.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. > >

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 6:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: 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

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Steven Bellovin
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" -- peop

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 4:25 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect ... ditto. i'm not aware of any actions by the .eg registry operator, though i'll ask, coincidental to the prefix withdrawal. i suppose in the interests of completeness i should al

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
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. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml notes, for example, that routes *through* Egypt were o

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/16/2011 11:50, Franck Martin wrote: - Original Message - From: "Martin Millnert" To: "Marshall Eubanks" Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 8:28:22 AM Subject: Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet On Wed, Feb 16, 20

Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Martin Millnert" > To: "Marshall Eubanks" > Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" > Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 8:28:22 AM > Subject: Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Marshall Eubank