Libyan Internet Flatlined 77
dnsdude told us about the latest developments regarding rumored Libyan Internet censorship. It appears that massive censorship is occuring with two of the five .ly root name servers being unreachable. It's difficult to tell if this is because of intentionally bad routes, or the result of actual infrastructure damage.
Re:Wonder if Bit.ly is still happy about their URL (Score:5, Informative)
Root servers for the ly TLD:
All of these would have to inoperable before all .ly domains would stop resolving, and there's still the matter of caching at intermediate DNS servers until the TTL expires for records. Additionally, bit.ly isn't hosted within Libya. In short, I don't expect bit.ly to be going down over this.
Link is up. Layer 8 is down. (Score:5, Informative)
I posted what I know here :
http://forum.americafree.tv/showthread.php?p=45045 [americafree.tv]
It looks like the undersea cable is fine and BGP is up, but there is no reachability past the landing site. This indicates that there is probably not physical damage, at least to the landing site and the first hop routers, but a cut somewhere after that. If I had to guess, I would guess that Gaddafi or his minions just told the ISPs to shut it down.
As the only Libyan landing site I know of is in Tripoli, this may also cut off the liberated areas in Cyrenaica.
Redundancy in routing is good - an overland link between Benghazi and Alexandria could be very useful right now.
Re:bit.ly is still up (Score:4, Informative)
Closest, not closets....
Dude, I'm not the parent.
When I see these pedantic corrections on an internet discussion site, it just hits a nerve with me -
Dude: he was correcting HIS OWN ERROR.
LEARN to read before you try posting.