Egypt Coming Back On the 'net

An anonymous reader wrote in with the good news that after 5 days of blackout, "Egypt is coming back on-line. Some sites that didn't used to be available and are now back include two telcos: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt. Guess that we can't have those IPv4 addresses back after all then."

Wow

[gcnaddict]

"Guess that we can't have those IPv4 address back after all then."

Okay, that was good.

Vodafone Egypt

[Cimexus]

Well if Vodafone Egypt is anything like Vodafone Australia, the distinction between the network being 'on' or 'off' will be difficult to spot! :P

Rolling back?

[cloude-pottier]

I imagine that Egypt's ISPs tried cutting over to IPv6-only infrastructure. This is all just a coincidence, nothing to do with the protests. I'm glad they've rolled back to IPv4 though, we can't be depriving people of access to Twitter and Facebook.

There was a joke circulating around ...

[kubis]

What are eGyptians without Internet? Gyptians! ;)

Well..

[xMrFishx]

It does take ages to re-aim the pyramids to pick up signal again. They also take a good while to reboot.

Re:Rolling back?

[arkane1234]

I think we should put Twitter and Facebook on the IPv4 network and move everything else over to IPv6.
It'll be Darwinian Theory at it's finest.