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Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid

Posted by timothy on from the what-bad-governments-do-fig-1 dept.

hypnosec writes "Amidst the ongoing civil war, Syria has gone off the Internet as of a few hours ago, with all the 84 IP block within the country unreachable from the outside. Renesys, a research firm keeping tabs on the health of the Internet, reported at about 5:25 ET that Syria's Internet connectivity has been shut down. The internet traffic from outside to Syrian IP addresses is going undelivered, and anything coming from within the country is not reaching the Internet. Akamai has tweeted that its traffic data supports what Renesys has observed." Reader trickstyhobbit adds a report from Slate that the connection "appear[s] to have been knocked off line by heavy fighting earlier this morning. They are also reporting that the shutdown may have been intentional to aid in a government operation."

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  1. Re:Did someone say... IP Block? by jemenake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Exactly! When I read that, the first thing through my mind was "Oh, great! The world can hit the snooze button on the IPv6 rollout for another 18 months!"

  2. No internet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SYRIAN 1: We're heading out Californy way, I heard they gots a whole mess of internet!

    SYRIAN 2: I might just click on a popup, just for the heck of it!