Syria Internet connection cut?

Published: 2012-07-20
Last Updated: 2012-07-20 14:44:14 UTC
by Mark Baggett (Version: 2)
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We received a report that there is a loss of connectivity with Syria.   The report claims that 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP  tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19).    If you have more information please comment or send a note to handler@isc.sans.edu

Thanks to NANOG

UPDATE:  Gizmodo has some more information here:  http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/syria-deleted-itself-from-the-internet-today/

UPDATE 2:  More good information on the outage:  http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml 

Mark Baggett

@markbaggett

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Our Netflow collection system seems to show a pronouced decrease in Syrian traffic starting around 11:30 UTC on Wednesday, 18 July 2012, and continueing, though not a full outage. It does, of course, also reflect the brief sharper outage described in the articles.
Syria went offline twice over the last 2 days, Exact outage times:
2012-07-19 between 13:32 and 14:13
2012-07-20 between 10:58 and 11:06

Also see availability graph here:
https://twitter.com/bgpmon/status/226338323793334272/photo/1/large

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