Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz <teoruiz () gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv> wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks 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 As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn.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.
> >
> > I have been told that the Egyptian Prime Minister has publicly announced that the Internet would be restored soon, 
> > but at present neither my
>
> Looks like it's coming back: http://stat.ripe.net/egypt
>
> ~2500 prefixes being announced now.
> --
> teo - http://www.teoruiz.com
>
> "Res publica non dominetur"
>
> Yes, confirmed from 09:29 UTC.   Basically all major providers are back, full status quo ante (modulo reagg), major 
> sites are up.
>
> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/egypt-returns-to-the-internet.shtml

It's not just BGP - DNS (based on the samples I have been testing) seems to be fully back too. 

Regards
Marshall

> Good thoughts go out to the guys in the EG NOCs this morning.    Nanog wants to hear your war stories some day over a 
> cup of tea.
>
> --jim