Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

Good to see the traffic back. Graphs visualizing return of Egyptian traffic volumes below. Week view: http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/egypt_back_week.png Today: http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/egypt_returns.png - Craig Craig Labovitz | Chief Scientist, Arbor Ne

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On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > >> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian sto

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On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:30:45PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > EUN (the academic network, which includes the primary name server for > .EG) is still unreachable (1130 UTC). It works now (1137 UTC). BGP was a bit slow.

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On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:23:39AM -0500, Jim Cowie wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC. Basically all major providers are > back, full status quo ante (modulo reagg), major sites are up. EUN (the academic network, which includes the primary name server fo

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > >> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian > stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off th

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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock >> exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet. > > I have been told that the Egyptian Prime

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gt;> 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" >> To: "Marshall Eubanks" >> Cc: nanog@nano

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> Here's an updated list: > http://www.bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan31-2011.txt Some decent opportunities for route aggregation in that list...

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Hi Danny, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 11-01-31 2:41 PM Danny O'Brien wrote: Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here: http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt Here's an updated list

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gt;> www.race.com >> -Original Message- >> From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January >> 27, 2011 11:46 PM >> To: Joel Jaeggli >> Cc: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M

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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

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Hi, Danny. > Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate > with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here: > http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt We see the following ASNs presently: ASN CC AS Name 6762| IT | SEABONE-NET TELECOM ITALI

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ommissioning) 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" > > To: "Marshall Eubanks" > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > &

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-- Original Message - > From: "Joe Abley" > To: "Marshall Eubanks" > 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: > >>

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- Original Message - > From: "Benson Schliesser" > To: "andrew.wallace" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 2:47:42 PM > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:44 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: >

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Here is the analysis of BGP table regarding what happened to the Internet in Egypt: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ https://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_analysis Cidr report (http://www.cidr-report.org) shows this also very well: Recent Table History

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://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ https://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_analysis Vesna Manojlovic RIPE NCC Trainer -- Forwarded message -- From: Danny O'Brien Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:47 PM Subject: Connectivity status for Egypt To: NANOG Oper

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Anonymized because I am forwarding without permission... > > Dears, > > As per what I know from friends: > > 1. All Internet is down. Apparently one network is still working but seems to > be serving the stock exchange only and few others. > 2. SMS is down. > 3. Landlines are down (at least in

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:44 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that > infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to > come back online. > > Andrew Wallace > > --- > > British IT Security Consultant Y

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM, jim deleskie wrote: > iMCI or WCOM? :) w (technically the folks that engineered it were mci folk... from texas. > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Christopher Morrow > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote: >> >> > For instance, o

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iMCI or WCOM? :) On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote: > > > For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET > PIP). > > that's the MCI PIP... > >

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:07:51PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > On 1/28/11, andrew.wallace wrote: > > We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that > > infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to > > come back online. > > Well, yeah, i

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On 1/28/11, andrew.wallace wrote: > We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that > infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to > come back online. Well, yeah, it has to be done carefully, otherwise the first guy to turn on an E1 line

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:44 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that > infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to > come back online. > > Andrew Wallace > > --- > > British IT Security Consultant ht

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We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to come back online. Andrew Wallace --- British IT Security Consultant

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On Friday 28 January 2011 21:22:55 Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christopher Morrow > > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote: > >> For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET > >> PIP). > > > > that's the MCI

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hours, otherwise Fiji would have gone dark for days... - Original Message - From: "Joe Abley" To: "Marshall Eubanks" 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:

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gt;>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM >>> To: Patrick W. Gilmore >>> Cc: NANOG list >>> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt >>> >>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >>> >>>> I think it do

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote: > >> For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET PIP). > > that's the MCI PIP... probably the .EG parts of that PIP are provided on a partner network st

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I have also seen reports that Syria has severed their Internet access, as well: http://af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAFLDE70P18Y20110126 http://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/31002490816167936 Can anyone confirm that?

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:36:30 PST, George Bonser said: > I think it would be pretty hard to actually cut off communications when the > telephone system is still working. You can move a lot of email by dialup UUCP > if you wanted to. Sure, just pop onto amazon.com and order a modem... oh, wait. (

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote: > For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET PIP). that's the MCI PIP...

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011 12:07 PM >>> To: Patrick W. Gilmore >>> Cc: NANOG list >>> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt >>> >>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >>>> I think it does not matter. Censorship is censorship. (So much

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On 1/28/2011 1:02 PM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: I wonder if anyone's working on a mesh or p-t-p radio app that runs on a smartphone? Yes - came across http://www.servalproject.org/ from the linux.conf.au program.

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On Friday 28 January 2011 20:36:30 George Bonser wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jake Khuon [mailto:kh...@neebu.net] > > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM > > To: Patrick W. Gilmore > > Cc: NANOG list > > Subject: Re: Connectivity status f

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Here is a blog by Al Jazeera on what is happening in Egypt. Look at the time stamp of 7:46. Kill-Switch is alive and well. Coming to America soon? http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/28/liveblog-egypts-protests-erupt . ** *The only power people exert ove

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/2011 12:36 PM, George Bonser wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jake Khuon [mailto:kh...@neebu.net] >> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM >> To: Patrick W. Gilmore >> Cc: NANOG list

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On 1/28/2011 8:17 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: out of curiousity, what's the difference though between loss of light and peer shutdown? If the local gov't comes in and says: "Make the internets go down", you as the op choose how to do that... NOT getting calls from your peer for interface alarms

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> -Original Message- > From: Jake Khuon [mailto:kh...@neebu.net] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM > To: Patrick W. Gilmore > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: &g

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On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > I think it does not matter. Censorship is censorship. (So much for "routing > around it".) Obviously for the effected, the effects are the same. |8^) However, I'm interested in knowing about the level of fine control that the Egyp

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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 th

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Jim, On Jan 28, 2011, at 12:43 PM, wrote: > And would you comply with it if it indeed became law? For better or worse, companies will comply with lawful requests. In the event of US Civil Unrest, I think it would be much harder than in other regimes to exert this type of control, and would c

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I'm a reporter for Network World, and we're working on a series of stories re the Egyptian Internet blackout. I hope I can glean some information from the operators on this list for my story. It would be much appreciated. My question for NANOG operators is... Is the blackout disrupting your ope

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > Does anybody knows what is the situation with local traffic, are > people able to communicate within the country, are there any local > servers/services that are being blocked/etc. ? > > -J > > According to CBC in Canada this morning... http

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:17:58 EST, Christopher Morrow said: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Jake Khuon wrote: > > > I guess this begs the question of whether or not we're seeing actual > > layer1 going down or just the effects of mass BGP withdrawals. Are we > > seeing lights out on fibre links

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Does anybody knows what is the situation with local traffic, are people able to communicate within the country, are there any local servers/services that are being blocked/etc. ? -J

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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. Marshall > > > Jared Mauch > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Morrow > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost. The question is not whether that would it (it obviously would). The question is whether it is important if the laser stops blinking or just blinks in ways that end users can't see all

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I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost. Jared Mauch On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Jake Khuon wrote: > >> I guess this begs the question of whether or not we're seeing actual >> layer1 going down or just the effec

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Jake Khuon wrote: > I guess this begs the question of whether or not we're seeing actual > layer1 going down or just the effects of mass BGP withdrawals.  Are we > seeing lights out on fibre links or just peering sessions going down? > Both could still point to a

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Patrik Wallström wrote: >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >> >>> Al Arabiya is reporting (via twitter) that the Internet has been shut of in >>> Syria (where I have not heard of reports

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Patrik Wallström wrote: > On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> Al Arabiya is reporting (via twitter) that the Internet has been shut of in >> Syria (where I have not heard of reports of protests). >> >> I have no confirmation of this as yet. >

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On 28/01/2011 15:15, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Al Arabiya is reporting (via twitter) that the Internet has been shut of in Syria (where I have not heard of reports of protests). I have no confirmation of this as yet. AS29386 (Syrian Telecommunication Establishment) appears to be up at this time

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Al Arabiya is reporting (via twitter) that the Internet has been shut of in > Syria (where I have not heard of reports of protests). > > I have no confirmation of this as yet. I have seen no evidence if this. Can still reach services withi

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Al Arabiya is reporting (via twitter) that the Internet has been shut of in Syria (where I have not heard of reports of protests). I have no confirmation of this as yet. Regards Marshall On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Roy wrote: > >> On

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> -Original Message- > From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM > To: Joel Jaeggli > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

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--Original Message- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

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ginal Message- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote: >> Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I did >> some Google searches and that region has had large scale disruptions in >> the past.

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On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 22:49 -0800, Roy wrote: > On 1/27/2011 9:36 PM, Craig Labovitz wrote: > > > > And to add to this thread, an graph of Egyptian Internet traffic across a > > large number of geographically / topologically diverse providers yesterday > > (Jan 27): > > > > http://farm6.static.

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On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote: > On 1/27/2011 9:36 PM, Craig Labovitz wrote: >> >> And to add to this thread, an graph of Egyptian Internet traffic >> across a large number of geographically / topologically diverse >> providers yesterday (Jan 27): >> >> http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027

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On 1/27/2011 9:36 PM, Craig Labovitz wrote: And to add to this thread, an graph of Egyptian Internet traffic across a large number of geographically / topologically diverse providers yesterday (Jan 27): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg Traffic drops to a handf

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And to add to this thread, an graph of Egyptian Internet traffic across a large number of geographically / topologically diverse providers yesterday (Jan 27): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg Traffic drops to a handful of megabits following the withdrawal of mo

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Roy wrote: > On 1/27/2011 3:47 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: > >> Around 2236 UCT, we lost all Internet connectivity with our contacts in >> Egypt, and I'm hearing reports of (in declining order of confirmability): >> >> 1) Internet connectivity loss on major (broadban

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Roy wrote: > I suggest that you confine your information to the press on what you know > rather than speculation on the cause. > I think the earlier references to the BGPmon blog article is sufficient to illustrate a

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On 1/27/2011 3:47 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: Around 2236 UCT, we lost all Internet connectivity with our contacts in Egypt, and I'm hearing reports of (in declining order of confirmability): 1) Internet connectivity loss on major (broadband) ISPs 2) No SMS 4) Intermittent connectivity with smaller

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On 01/28/2011 12:47 AM, Danny O'Brien wrote: > If anyone can provide more details as to what they're seeing, the extent, > plus times and dates, it would be very useful. In moments like this there > are often many unconfirmed rumors: I'm seeking concrete reliable > confirmation which I can pass ont

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Hi, Looking at the BGP announcements it seems that the problem started at around 22:28 UTC. Most of the Autonomous systems operating in Egypt are currently not announcing any or at least significantly less prefixes. The one exception seems to be AS20928 (Noor Data Networks). For more detail

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On twitter (follow the #jan25 and #jan28 hash tags), there are many > reports of loss of internet connectivity in Egypt. Apparently cell phones > and land lines are still working. > > Of co

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On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: > Around 2236 UCT, we lost all Internet connectivity with our contacts in > Egypt, and I'm hearing reports of (in declining order of confirmability): > > 1) Internet connectivity loss on major (broadband) ISPs > 2) No SMS > 4) Intermittent connec

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I'd suspect it's got a lot more to do with the open rioting on the streets, government shooting people, the numbers involved in protests, what happened in Tunisia next door etc. etc. Loss of Internet connectivity is relatively minor in comparison. Any investor with even half a brain is going to

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Some interesting financial news... Unsure if this is related the outages, but interesting. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egypt-market-slumps-as-mideast-turmoil-spreads-2011-01-27 EGYPT: Stock market stumbles amid nationwide turbulence

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I have a server with CityNet Host in Cairo. The server and ISP are completely offline

Connectivity status for Egypt

Around 2236 UCT, we lost all Internet connectivity with our contacts in Egypt, and I'm hearing reports of (in declining order of confirmability): 1) Internet connectivity loss on major (broadband) ISPs 2) No SMS 4) Intermittent connectivity with smaller (dialup?) ISPs 5) No mobile service in major