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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. Did someone say... IP Block? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Syria doesn't need to come back, or if it does, maybe not with a full block. IPv4 addresses are valuable!

  2. As we all know, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A communication disruption can only mean one thing.

  3. route around it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For those of you who think the internet is some magically self-healing construct immune to accidental or intentional disconnection of nodes and subnetworks, this should serve to show that if you aren't in charge over the physical infrastructure, you are at the mercy of those who are.

  4. Re:DAMMIT! by dywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    funny enough, that's a real site.
    http://lolgoats.net/

    --
    The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
  5. Re:Dibs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just want www.pus.sy