Noor is now down too and the stockmarket, up today at 2pm Cairo time (when I checked to see the market close -- it never opened), is now down. See Beckstrom's blog entry: http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt He mentions two policy issues -- TTL expiry, and extra-territoriality of secondary(ies), and goes out of his way to invoke a ccNSO policy development outcome. http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ shows another big spike today when Noor.net was pulled. Eric -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:51:04 -0500 From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> To: Danny O'Brien <danny@spesh.com> CC: nanog@nanog.org On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@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As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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.
Yep, Noor is now down.
Collateral damage from all of this, as detailed in http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/ is that the Arabic script top-level domain .masr (مصر) has been unavailable since the 27th, since it is is operated by NTRA of Egypt. Regards Marshall
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DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely withdrawn :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
Marshall
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@hopcount.ca> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@americafree.tv> Cc: nanog@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