As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn : dig www.noor.net ; 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 > > >
