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While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone "dark", or, as Umbrella Security Labs describes it, as if "Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet."
Thank goodness no one in the US government ever suggested an internet kill switch here! Wait ... wut?
Warcraft is down! 200,000 syrian teens will be out in the streets.
Launch the stealth drones, and drop leaflets from overhead telling the Syrian people that they have been pre-approved for a promotional low-interest balance transfer for three generations of productivity.
And in parallel news, we are hearing unconfirmed reports that mobile connections have been cut off as well.
How it happened:
Routing on the Internet relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP distributes routing information and makes sure all routers on the Internet know how to get to a certain IP address. When an IP range becomes unreachable it will be withdrawn from BGP, this informs routers that the IP range is no longer reachable.
For example, one of the name servers for the DNS zone .SY is ns1.tld.sy with IP address 82.137.200.85.
Normally our routers would expect a BGP route for 82.137.192.0/18
Currently that route has disappeared and we no longer have a way to reach the Nameservers for .SY that reside in Syria
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by MystikMushroom
You mean Anonymous? It's possible.
Anonymous @Sengcan 4m @Speak2tweet is still up and running if phones are still working. 902123391447 302111982716 390662207294 16504194196. #Syria #OpSyria
Dial Up access #syria: +46850009990 +492317299993 +4953160941030 User:telecomix password:telecomix OR +33172890150 login:toto password:toto
During the 25 month-long uprising, internet in Syria has been previously shut off in June 2011, July 2012 and most recently November 28, 2012. In November, ABC News reported the internet was restored after nearly 72 hours.
"Reagan is to Iran-Contra as Obama is to _______ ."
1. Bengazi
2. Fast & Furious
3. Torture
4. Rendition
5. War Crimes (Drone Strikes)
6. Illegal Wars acts of aggression.
7. Treason
8. LIBOR
9. MF Global
10. NDAA
**Bonus Points:
11. Arming funding and training the exact same AL-CIA-duh terrorists the Criminal Federal Government claim to be protecting us from.
12. Economic Terrorism - Bailing out the TBTFB.
Originally posted by Tuttle
I wonder when they agree to take a country offline all interested parties are compensated for lost revenues, such as the likes of google and facebook.
Cant imagine Syria being a particularly profitable market sector for virtual profit generation, but still, the numbers will get noticed somewhere.
Originally posted by EartOccupant
Just a question.
Is it also technically possible the other way around?
An outside "force" disconnects Syria against their will?
Originally posted by pslr2301
Looks like this isn't the first time.
During the 25 month-long uprising, internet in Syria has been previously shut off in June 2011, July 2012 and most recently November 28, 2012. In November, ABC News reported the internet was restored after nearly 72 hours.
Internet down in Syria...
Syria down on 30 Nov. 2012