They may be talking about the European-Asian fiber-optic routes that go through Egypt..
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 7:21 AM To: [email protected] ; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet I am sorry ....but that is a cheap shot.... I have never received any spam originating from Egypt... Tons of spam from here in the US though. :) Faisal On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:03 AM, "Stuart Pierce" <[email protected]> wrote: > Well maybe some spam will stop, a little at least. > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Jack Unger <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:06:22 -0800 > >> Sorry for the OT post. I thought some might be interested. >> >> *************************************************************************************************** >> Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action >> unprecedented in >> Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service >> providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. >> Critical >> European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected >> for now. >> But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, >> website, >> school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four >> Egyptian ISPs >> for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the >> world. Link >> Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their >> customers and >> partners are, for the moment, off the air. >> >> At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually >> simultaneous >> withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global >> routing >> table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving >> no >> valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange >> Internet >> traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet >> addresses are now unreachable, worldwide. >> >> ******************************************************************************************************************** >> >> >> -- >> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. >> Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks" >> Serving the WISP, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993 >> www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
