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.

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Re:Wonder if Bit.ly is still happy about their URL

[palegray.net]

Root servers for the ly TLD:

• dns.lttnet.net
• auth02.ns.uu.net
• ns-ly.ripe.net
• phloem.uoregon.edu
• dns1.lttnet.net

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.