[NA-Discuss] Fwd: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Noor is now down too and the stockmarket, up today at 2pm Cairo time 
(when I checked to see the market close -- it never opened), is now down.

See Beckstrom's blog entry:
http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt

He mentions two policy issues -- TTL expiry, and extra-territoriality 
of secondary(ies), and goes out of his way to invoke a ccNSO policy 
development outcome.

http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ shows another big spike today when 
Noor.net was pulled.

Eric

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:51:04 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv>
To: Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com>
CC: nanog at nanog.org


On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv>wrote:
>
>> As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock
>> exchange - egyptse.com - now appears to be off the Internet.
>>
>>
> Yep, Noor is now down.

Collateral damage from all of this, as detailed in

http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/

is that the Arabic script top-level domain .masr (مصر)
has been unavailable since the 27th, since it is is operated by NTRA 
of Egypt.

Regards
Marshall


>
> Those on the ground with Noor DSL in Cairo contacted their front line
> support, and they're saying "technical problems" that will take a few hours
> to fix.
>
> Does anyone has a list of routes that are still up, and seem to correlate
> with Egyptian locations? Andree's last list is here:
> http://bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan29-2011.txt
>
> I'm staring at looking glass output to check these remaining routes, and
> that seems unfair on both those offering those free services, and my own
> sanity...
>
> d.
>
>
>
>> DNS for egyptse.com also appears to be down, but Noor.net is definitely
>> withdrawn :
>>
>> dig www.noor.net
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.noor.net
>> ;; global options: +cmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15709
>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.noor.net.                  IN      A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> www.noor.net.           503     IN      CNAME   noor.net.
>> noor.net.               503     IN      A       217.139.227.20
>>
>> show ip bgp 217.139.227.20
>> % Network not in table
>>
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
>>
>>> If I'm correct, in 2000 in Fiji, the main fiber optic cable from the
>> national provider to the international provider was sabotaged, cutting all
>> communications. Fortunately an Alcatel team was on the island (SCC
>> commissioning) with the right tools and could splice it back in a few hours,
>> otherwise Fiji would have gone dark for days...
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Joe Abley" <jabley at hopcount.ca>
>>> To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme at americafree.tv>
>>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>>> Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 7:32:07 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-01-28, at 11:33, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that was the case for Burma, for example.
>>>
>>> It was not the case in Nepal in 2005 though, if I remember correctly. In
>> that case connectivity to the outside was maintained, but access to that
>> connectivity by people inside the country was curtailed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>