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.
Wonder if Bit.ly is still happy about their URL. . (Score:2, Interesting)
I've always wondered if using a .ly domain name would come back to bite bit.ly in the arse. I just checked, and it still appears to be up, but if all the .ly servers go down for more than a day, no one will be able to use their service.
Re:bit.ly is still up (Score:4, Interesting)
If you look at the graph on the google page linked in the summary, and expand it to the left, it turns out that Libya's traffic was about 50% lower a few weeks ago, when the revolution started. It's been improving. The "flatline" is suspicious, especially since 3 of the 5 .ly root servers are still up. It also falls in the area of data that's still being collected by Google, so it might be specious.