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Egypt Coming Back On the 'net

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-back-to-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with the good news that after 5 days of blackout, "Egypt is coming back on-line. Some sites that didn't used to be available and are now back include two telcos: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt. Guess that we can't have those IPv4 addresses back after all then."

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  1. Wow by gcnaddict · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Guess that we can't have those IPv4 address back after all then."

    Okay, that was good.

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  2. Vodafone Egypt by Cimexus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well if Vodafone Egypt is anything like Vodafone Australia, the distinction between the network being 'on' or 'off' will be difficult to spot! :P

  3. Rolling back? by cloude-pottier · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine that Egypt's ISPs tried cutting over to IPv6-only infrastructure. This is all just a coincidence, nothing to do with the protests. I'm glad they've rolled back to IPv4 though, we can't be depriving people of access to Twitter and Facebook.

    1. Re:Rolling back? by arkane1234 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think we should put Twitter and Facebook on the IPv4 network and move everything else over to IPv6.
      It'll be Darwinian Theory at it's finest.

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  4. There was a joke circulating around ... by kubis · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are eGyptians without Internet? Gyptians! ;)

  5. Well.. by xMrFishx · · Score: 3, Funny

    It does take ages to re-aim the pyramids to pick up signal again. They also take a good while to reboot.