<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Jan 2019, at 17:03, C. A. Fillekes <<a href="mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com" class="">cfillekes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Whole countries falling off the net? BUT TEH TOP POSTINGS!!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm a little frustrated with the very existence of that thread.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trying to constructively change the topic to something more interesting lol. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I guess the concerning thing to me is that the whole point of packet switched networks was to provide resilience in the face of e.g. civil disorder. <br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:50 AM Colin Johnston <<a href="mailto:colinj@gt86car.org.uk" class="">colinj@gt86car.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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="auto" class="">sorry top posting,<div class="">yup whatsup doesnt work in harare.</div><div class="">phone circuits land ok though and checked ok</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">col<br class=""><br class=""><div id="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPod</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:42, C. A. Fillekes <<a href="mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cfillekes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM C. A. Fillekes <<a href="mailto:cfillekes@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cfillekes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So @meileaben on twitter this morning notes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zimbabwe?src=hash" class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s class="">#</s><b class="">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_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s class="">#</s><b class="">RIPEstat</b></a> here: <a href="https://t.co/sgJ4O3310z" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-timeline-link" title="https://stat.ripe.net/ZW" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible">https://</span><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-display-url">stat.ripe.net/ZW</span><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible"></span><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-tco-ellipsis"><span class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-invisible"> </span></span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenNetworkIntelligence?src=hash" class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s class="">#</s><b class="">OpenNetworkIntelligence</b></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZimbabweShutdown?src=hash" class="gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-pretty-link gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-js-nav gmail-m_-6657089755790090900gmail-m_1598476246111943043gmail-twitter-hashtag" dir="ltr" target="_blank"><s class="">#</s><b class="">ZimbabweShutdown</b></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136" target="_blank" class="">https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">wondering if anyone here has additional info on that. Looing at <a href="http://stat.ripe.net/ZW" target="_blank" class="">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 class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So Bloomberg notes that a number of ISPs were shut down to quell online protest<br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights" target="_blank" class="">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 class=""></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>zimbabwe situation link below re telecom problems</div><div><a href="https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violent-protests-report/" class="">https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimbabwe-telecoms-jammed-after-violent-protests-report/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I was back in Zim myself last month as well to see family children, internet was working well then inc whats up, mobile and adsl.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I wonder how they block social media sites/whats up, is it null routing on peering cores or filtering since did not see filtering in place from ZIM<>UK last month...</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Colin</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>