<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">sorry top posting,<div>yup whatsup doesnt work in harare.</div><div>phone circuits land ok though and checked ok</div><div><br></div><div>col<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPod</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:42, C. A. Fillekes <<a href="mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com">cfillekes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM C. A. Fillekes <<a href="mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com">cfillekes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>So @meileaben on twitter this morning notes:</div><div><br></div><div>Many <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zimbabwe?src=hash" class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s>#</s><b>Zimbabwe</b></a> Internet routes withdrawn around 9:30 UTC amidst civil unrest in the country. near-realtime on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPEstat?src=hash" class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s>#</s><b>RIPEstat</b></a> here: <a href="https://t.co/sgJ4O3310z" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-timeline-link" title="https://stat.ripe.net/ZW" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible">https://</span><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-display-url">stat.ripe.net/ZW</span><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible"></span><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-tco-ellipsis"><span class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible"> </span></span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenNetworkIntelligence?src=hash" class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s>#</s><b>OpenNetworkIntelligence</b></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZimbabweShutdown?src=hash" class="gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s>#</s><b>ZimbabweShutdown</b></a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136</a></div><div><br></div><div>wondering if anyone here has additional info on that. Looing at <a href="http://stat.ripe.net/ZW" target="_blank">stat.ripe.net/ZW</a> now it looks as though one (out of an original 18, current 9) ASN has recovered, but kind of curious as to what exactly happened there. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So Bloomberg notes that a number of ISPs were shut down to quell online protest<br></div><div><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights</a> but are there no work-arounds available, if implemented? <br></div></div></div></div></div>
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