> 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
Sounds like what the U.S. could morph into . Victoria Proffer - President/CEO www.ShowMeBroadband.com www.StLouisBroadband.com www.FarmingtonForum.com <http://farmingtonforum.com/> 314-974-5600 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:31 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet 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 Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving 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/
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