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Libyan Internet Flatlined

Posted by Unknown on from the dude-you-blew-up-the-edge-router dept.

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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  1. all your base... by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    are belong to me. The people love me. I am not a leader, I have no position. I cannot step down.

    But you have voluntarily given all your base to me. I am divine protector of your base.

    I will never leave. Your base is safe with me.

    Some young people have taken drugs which caused them to make poor decisions about their base.

    The correct decision is to give all your base to me. I will never leave you. The people's councils honor me with their base.

    I am forever.

  2. Re:Wonder if Bit.ly is still happy about their URL by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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