[AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"

[Brett O'Hara]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg

<http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg>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?

Regards,
   Brett

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Terry Manderson <terry at terrym.net> wrote:

> 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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