Connectivity status for Egypt

Mon Jan 31 22:41:02 UTC 2011

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv>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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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.
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Yep, Noor is now down.

Those on the ground with Noor DSL in Cairo contacted their front line
support, and they're saying "technical problems" that will take a few hours
to fix.

Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate
with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here:
http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt

I'm staring at looking glass output to check these remaining routes, and
that seems unfair on both those offering those free services, and my own
sanity...

d.

> 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 withdrawn :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
>
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> Marshall
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> 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 at hopcount.ca>
> > To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme at americafree.tv>
> > Cc: nanog at 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
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