Thursday: Internet outage eastern Europe Iran and Turkey

Mon Dec 23 17:22:00 UTC 2019

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 11:53 PM Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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> --- morrowc.lists at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
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> I do think the overall conversation about nation states
> disabling internet (which is not likely the case with
> Sean's original post?) is nanog-worthy.
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> Yes, I believe you're correct for the most part.  I just
> was more interested in the technical parts and there is
> a global audience here that may have insight as to how
> that part of the network is working.  I can easily see
> how that would get out of control.  But, how are they
> configuring their network elements to block is my
> question.  (DPI? BGP? etc.)

ah! ok... I imagine there are a few knobs for each sort of thing that
can get turned. I think we've seen
over the years at least:
  1) turkey blocking access to 8.8.8.8
       (looked like mostly done with static /32's?)

  2) egypt turning off internet for the country
     (prior to overthrow? - I believe 'phone calls to providers' was
renesys's conclusion)
     https://dyn.com/blog/egypt-leaves-the-internet/
    this article points at tunisia and iran as well.

  3) pktelecom bgp routery making youtube less cat and more pain.
       https://dyn.com › blog › pakistan-hijacks-youtube-1

  4) prc firewall - forms of mostly DPI packet skullduggery
       blocking random http (really tcp traffic), specific DNS RRs,
disrupting/blocking various VPN technologies

I'd say it probably depends a bunch on whom is doing the poking, for
how long they plan
to make this work/not-work and the tools they have immediately available :(

Figuring more of this out seems like a good plan though... I'm not
sure trying to
actively subvert any of these nation state actions is particularly
smart/healthy though :(
  (note: i don't think YOU/scott are looking for this last part, but
generally speaking...
   it seems like folk put themselves in a bad place if/when they
attempt to get around
   a nationstate's actions, particularly from inside that nationstate)

-chris