[AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"

[Terry Manderson]

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 [ http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/ ]. Mubarak is current Pres of the Arab republic of Egypt.

So I suspect the outage will be temporary while the "issue" is "contained" ... as if that _ever_ works.

Terry

On 28/01/2011, at 2:00 PM, James Troy wrote:

> i would love to embrace the future, now if only our upstream would too.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kevin Wakefield <KevinW at diamondgroup.net.au> wrote:
> Let it go, Damien....embrace the future
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Damien Morris
> Sent: Friday, 28 January 2011 2:34 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"
> 
> On 28/01/11 2:29 PM, "Matt Carter" <matt at iseek.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >Interesting read
> >
> >----
> >Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action
> >unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to
> >have ordered service providers to shut down all international
> >connections to the Internet.
> >
> >Source
> >http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
> >----
> >
> 
> We can reclaim and extend ipv4 a bit further, then.
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