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Libyan Internet Flatlined
dnsdude told us about the latest developments regarding rumored Libyan Internet censorship. It appears that massive censorship is occuring with two of the five .ly root name servers being unreachable. It's difficult to tell if this is because of intentionally bad routes, or the result of actual infrastructure damage.
fwiw, I can still browse to bit.ly.
I've been expecting Twitter to have a major conniption when Gaddafi inevitably shuts down the whole .ly TLD.
I've always wondered if using a .ly domain name would come back to bite bit.ly in the arse. I just checked, and it still appears to be up, but if all the .ly servers go down for more than a day, no one will be able to use their service.
bit.ly is still up and running.
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Sucks for the Libyans, but at least maybe these stupid US based companies using the Libyan TLD will get what's coming to them for abusing DNS.
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More oil on the fire!
Rotten governments might finally start falling!
They sure are doing everything they can to anger people further.
Root servers for the ly TLD:
All of these would have to inoperable before all .ly domains would stop resolving, and there's still the matter of caching at intermediate DNS servers until the TTL expires for records. Additionally, bit.ly isn't hosted within Libya. In short, I don't expect bit.ly to be going down over this.
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Could there be a way to transfer control of .ly to the Benghazi Provisional Government of Libya?
I, for one, would welcome new overlords of .ly.
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Three of the .ly nameservers are outside of Libya, so as long as those are still answering queries .ly domains should be fine.
Data after this point are still being finalized. Interpret them with caution.
Google shows zero traffic as well:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=LY
I posted what I know here :
http://forum.americafree.tv/showthread.php?p=45045
It looks like the undersea cable is fine and BGP is up, but there is no reachability past the landing site. This indicates that there is probably not physical damage, at least to the landing site and the first hop routers, but a cut somewhere after that. If I had to guess, I would guess that Gaddafi or his minions just told the ISPs to shut it down.
As the only Libyan landing site I know of is in Tripoli, this may also cut off the liberated areas in Cyrenaica.
Redundancy in routing is good - an overland link between Benghazi and Alexandria could be very useful right now.
Well, that's easily solved for us slashdotters. Bit.ly is 168.143.172.53, at least to me here in the southeast UK. Just point your hosts file there.
was the wrong word, but these cutesy URLs annoy me in the same way starting a comment in the subject annoys me. Use fields (or ccTLDs) the way they are supposed to be used.
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What happen?
What you say?!
You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
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2 of 5 is not a flatline. It's 40%.
They come in the dark, only in the darkest.
Bit.ly is 168.143.172.53
Can you shorten that IP address for us?
> Well, that's easily solved for us slashdotters. Bit.ly is 168.143.172.53
Hmm that doesn't seem to fill-out my IPv6 field. Is that some form of obsolete protocol that you're using?
I am sure Gaddafi could, at any time, have Libya Telecom & Technology "turn off" the .ly TLD by contacting every root server.
Not sure if/why he'd want to do that, but I think one has to recognize that a TLD in a country run by a dictator is a serious business risk.
Sure
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They should put Quadaffi on "Two and a Half Men" and make Charlie Sheen dictator of Libya.
That'd be cool.
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A few days ago, Comcast stop serving .ly addresses in Chicago for a few hours. Bit.ly told me (via thier Twitter team, who was pretty quick) that it was routing problem with Comcast. I had assumed that some root name servers were down, but at the time, they checked out fine on other ISPs.
I kind of feel like these things might be related, like tinkering with the .ly nameservers to avoid the three in Libya, but I don't know enough about this to ask the right questions. Plausable?
As as aside, while troubleshooting this, bit.ly staff kept sending me shortlinks to solutions that I couldn't load because .ly timed out. Linkrot! Funny/scary.
Now what will the Libyan army do for the weekend? They have to work out that aggression somehow . . .
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Partial success: Firefox works if I disable proxy, but the Squid I use for caching and ad-blocking doesn't work with decimal-representation IPs.
If you post in a vaguely supportive way about Wikileaks, the law and order jarheads emerge and a robust (but depressing) conversation ensues. Here we have no opposing viewpoint from Qaddafi and his toadies, which removes all the charm from reading /.
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In other news from Libya protesters where attacked with machine guns and mortars. In know compared to cutting the internet that is minor but just thought I would throw that in. I fear that this one of those cases when I was right and a wished I was wrong. After Egypt I made the comment that I feared that the dictators where learning that they couldn't be just a little evil. Looks like I was right. That and it looks like Regan was right as well. After he had proof that Libya had been behind the terrorist bombing in Germany he ordered a strike. Too bad that SOB Bettino Craxi decided to warn Libya.
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Really? You think uoregon would be up for supporting him?
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No Internet, cellphones, or any channels. Only the Hostage Citizens Information Service TV. If dozens of countries are so upset, I don't understad why they don't engage in at least a little channel-specific Lies-TV jamming of their own to shut up the fool.
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I think you're forgetting that Libya does not control the public root. INAIC does, and I somehow suspect the entire ly TLD going dark "because a maniacal dictator said so" wouldn't last terribly long.
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