Syria internet cut ...

[AplusWebMaster]

FYI...

Syria internet cut ...
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13753
Last Updated: 2012-07-20 14:44:14 UTC ...(Version: 2) "... report claims that 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19)... Thanks to NANOG*...
UPDATE: Gizmodo has some more information here:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/syria-deleted-itself-from-the-internet-today/
UPDATE 2: More good information on the outage:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml

* http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-July/050437.html
"... confirmed, about 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19)..."

:fear: :sad:

[mon62012]

The Internet is a very powerful medium and some people are trying to control it but they're just disillusioned. There are still some countries where their governments are controlling the net for their own agendas. The thing with the lawmakers when trying to pass some bill about the Internet is that they don't really have any idea on what the web is all about. One good example of this is the SOPA act and thank goodness this has been canceled. Anyway, I'm getting fired up! hahaha! Thanks for sharing this news.

[AplusWebMaster]

FYI...

Syria disappears from Internet
- http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/05/07/breaking-news-traffic-from-syria-disappears-from-internet/
May 7, 2013 - "At around 18:45 UTC the OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet. The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria. The drop in both inbound and outbound traffic from Syria is clearly visible. The small amount of outbound traffic depicted by the chart indicates our DNS servers trying to reach DNS servers in Syria..."
> https://d1l5aqlryxcb4m.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/syria_offline-1024x191.png

:sad::fear: