[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Narelle]

Google's transparency report indicates that Syria was reconnected yesterday:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/

Regards



Narelle Clark


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet
>
> *"Beginning at 1026 UTC, routes were withdrawn for PCCW.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 also withdrawn, but has less of an impact.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 withdrawn for Turk Telekom.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.)
> *
>
> *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 were withdrawn suggests that this was done through updates in router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."*
>
> --Damian
>
>
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