Re: Remote support for Iranian protestors making it harder them to reach the outside world?

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:09 PM, <chris () blask org> wrote:

> A friend of mine live-blogging the incident asked this:
>
> "...there seems to be a raging debate as to whether the DDOS attacks on
> government websites screws up bandwidth and make it harder for ordinary
> Iranians to connect there." Would love some informed opinions on this
> topic."
>
> Anyone have an idea what connectivity to/from Iran consists of?  Think
> all the page-reload DDOS stuff could disrupt outbound access from the
> protesters?

The two best snapshots on this issue are here:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/iran-and-the-internet-uneasy-s.shtml
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/

FYI,

- - ferg

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