<br>Google's transparency report indicates that Syria was reconnected yesterday:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/">http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/</a><br><br>Regards<br><br>
<br><br>Narelle Clark<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Damian Guppy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:the.damo@gmail.com" target="_blank">the.damo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, it would appear this is just spin from the government. Cloudflare has put up a blog of what they saw, and it looks like router reconfiguration.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet" target="_blank">http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><i>"<span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">Beginning at 1026 UTC, routes were withdrawn for PCCW. The routing shifted primarily to Turk Telekom. Routes to Telecom Italia and TATA were also withdrawn, but has less of an impact. Then, at 1029 UTC, routes were withdrawn for Turk Telekom. After that, Syria was effectively cut off from the Internet. (Note that the remaining path that appears to be present in the video is an anomaly. We have confirmed that it is not actually active.)</span></i></div>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:10px 0px 5px;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><i>While we cannot know for sure, our network team estimates that Syria likely has a small number of edge routers. All the edge routers are controlled by Syrian Telecommunications. The systematic way in which routes were withdrawn suggests that this was done through updates in router configurations, not through a physical failure or cable cut."</i></p>
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<div><br></div><div>--Damian</div></font></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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