Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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 Minister has publicly announced that the Internet would be restored soon, but 
at present neither my 
monitoring nor http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ confirms this. 

Regards
Marshall


> DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn :
>
> dig www.noor.net
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.noor.net
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15709
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.noor.net.                        IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.noor.net.         503     IN      CNAME   noor.net.
> noor.net.             503     IN      A       217.139.227.20
>
> show ip bgp 217.139.227.20
> % Network not in table
>
>
> Marshall
>
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, 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) 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" <jabley () hopcount ca>
> > To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme () americafree tv>
> > 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:
> >
> > > 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 that case connectivity to the outside was 
> > maintained, but access to that connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed.
> >
> >
> > Joe