[outages] Syria off the net

[Sanjeev Gupta]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Carl Brooks
<carl.brooks at tier1research.com>wrote:

> Can anyone on the list confirm/expand? Cutting off web traffic isn't
> cutting off network access.
>

This is not blocking web, or a kind of traffic.  This is switching off
power to the routers that connect Syrian ISPs to the rest of the world.

For all we can tell, domestic traffic may still be flowing.

A similar case last year, in Egypt, see: http://bit.ly/65w20v


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