[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Aqius]

Here's hoping tomorrow news isn't too bad.

 

Surely there must be more we can do in this day and age? What would it take
for independent carriers to provide a little 'emergency' bandwidth in such a
situation even if it's GPRS it'd make all the difference.

 

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Narelle
Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 16:12
To: Noel Butler
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

 


I have it on good authority that there are three undersea cables heading
into Syria and one that comes overland from Turkey.

For all of these to be cut simultaneously they would need to be coming
through an unlikely common path, to let me think, the one exchange, to the
one set of routers all controlled by the one company... say Syrian
Telecommunications...

I understand the routes were all withdrawn systematically, so this doesn't
suggest fibre cuts, but deliberate reconfiguration of routers.

See:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ 

Reminds me of Libya. That's what happened then.


-- 


Narelle Clark
President
Internet Society of Australia
ph: 0412 297 043
int ph: +61 412 297 043
president at isoc-au.org.au
www.isoc-au.org.au

 

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net>
wrote:

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 00:24 +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote: 

Hmmm

 

Wondering if BBS will re appear (with up dialup ) again 

 

I'm sure they do exist already  :)  

However, if reports are true, they have taken out total communications in
some areas, so not much good.

 

 

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