[liberationtech] Hearing Syria internet cut

KheOps kheops at ceops.eu
Fri Jul 20 02:59:41 PDT 2012


Hi,

Tarassul ISP (also the biggest in Syria) seems to be specifically
undergoing problems to reach some hosts. But until now our tests only
showed quite random results.

KheOps

On 07/20/2012 11:55 AM, Brian Conley wrote:
> I have a colleague who was in touch with multiple individuals in Syria today, I believe after 1400 utc, but I have to confirm.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:20, Andrew Lewis <andrew at pdqvpn.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> And those prefixes cover the entire commercial Internet space, in effect all of Syria was down. 
>>
>> There have also been reports of routing issues all day. I haven't been able to confirm. 
>>
>> I honestly think we are headed towards a communication blackout. 
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Andree Toonk <andree+nanog at toonk.nl> -----
>>>
>>> From: Andree Toonk <andree+nanog at toonk.nl>
>>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:21:21 -0700
>>> To: George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com>
>>> Cc: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Hearing Syria internet cut
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>>> Reply-To: andree at toonk.nl
>>>
>>> .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 12-07-19 10:00 PM  George
>>> Bonser wrote:
>>>> Can anyone confirm? 
>>>
>>> Yes confirmed, about 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP
>>> tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andree
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- End forwarded message -----
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