[Chapter-delegates] Lybian Internet Outage

[Narelle]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com> wrote:

>> On 18 February 2011, during the 2011 Libyan protests, Libya appeared to have withdrawn all of its BGP prefix announcements from the Internet for a short period, cutting it off from the rest of the global Internet. The prefix were re-advertised six hours later.[1]
>
> Reports on nanog indicate that traffic between Libya and the outside world is sharply curtailed but not "out".

So does it look like people inside the ISPs (as it did in Egypt) are
being told to turn it off?

Do you think they are just turning off BGP? Then turning it back on
again arbitrarily (eg because someone's son needs to check their
financial portfolio)?


best regards



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Narelle
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