<a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg">http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg</a><div><br></div><div><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg"></a>You'd have to think the the sudden-ess and timing of the bgp announcements going away would suggest a cable station or other choke point has been turned off?  Is there any other technical details out on the other lists?<div>

<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>   Brett<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Terry Manderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terry@terrym.net" target="_blank">terry@terrym.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My guess is that it may be a political move to limit the exposure of some political unrest occurring in Egypt right now toward Hosni Mubarak [ <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/</a> ]. Mubarak is current Pres of the Arab republic of Egypt.<br>



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So I suspect the outage will be temporary while the "issue" is "contained" ... as if that _ever_ works.<br>
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Terry<br>
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On 28/01/2011, at 2:00 PM, James Troy wrote:<br>
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> i would love to embrace the future, now if only our upstream would too.<br>
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kevin Wakefield <<a href="mailto:KevinW@diamondgroup.net.au" target="_blank">KevinW@diamondgroup.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> Let it go, Damien....embrace the future<br>
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> Sent: Friday, 28 January 2011 2:34 PM<br>
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> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"<br>
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> On 28/01/11 2:29 PM, "Matt Carter" <<a href="mailto:matt@iseek.com.au" target="_blank">matt@iseek.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> >Interesting read<br>
> ><br>
> >----<br>
> >Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action<br>
> >unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to<br>
> >have ordered service providers to shut down all international<br>
> >connections to the Internet.<br>
> ><br>
> >Source<br>
> ><a href="http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml</a><br>
> >----<br>
> ><br>
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> We can reclaim and extend ipv4 a bit further, then.<br>
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