Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be 
off the Internet.

DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn :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