Hi, Am 14.02.2011 16:29, schrieb Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson: > If this was the only action taken, and assuming Egyptian ISPs have > peering arrangements amongst themselves, then the local Egyptian > Internet should have worked just fine, aside from the fact that DNS is a > globally shared system and DNS resolution would have quickly become > unreliable due to a lack of access to the global root servers (unless > they have global roots in Egypt, which I do not know, but find unlikely).
Peering probably went offline too when BGP routes were taken down. Seems more likely that you could communicate only within the network of each major ISP. In this case the p2p participants need to set up local peering links with their neighbors (assuming multiple ISPs compete in the same area). Regards, Theo _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
