Connectivity status for Egypt

Wed Feb 2 13:25:42 UTC 2011

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz <teoruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv> wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> >> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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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> > I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly announced that the Internet would be restored soon, but at present neither my
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> Looks like it's coming back: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt
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> ~2500 prefixes being announced now.
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> teo - http://www.teoruiz.com
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> "Res publica non dominetur"
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> Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC.   Basically all major providers are back, full status quo ante (modulo reagg), major sites are up.
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> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/egypt-returns-to-the-internet.shtml

It's not just BGP - DNS (based on the samples I have been testing) seems to be fully back too. 

Regards
Marshall

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> Good thoughts go out to the guys in the EG NOCs this morning.    Nanog wants to hear your war stories some day over a cup of tea.
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> --jim
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