Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are
unable to connect out.
Anyone hear of anything?
-steve
Nothing specific on traffic *getting out* of Iran, but the official Iranian
News Service (IRNA: Islamic Republic News Agency) website is certainly
available the web ( at least the website loads): http://www.irna.ir/en/
%tracert irna.ir
Tracing route to irna.ir [81.12.51.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
[snip]
6 36 ms 19 ms 30 ms
pos-0-8-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.78]
7 25 ms 23 ms 56 ms
pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.54]
8 27 ms 47 ms 21 ms Tenge13-3.br02.sjo01.pccwbtn.net
[63.218.179.25]
9 459 ms 409 ms 409 ms tci.pos3-5.ar03.ldn01.pccwbtn.net
[63.218.13.30]
10 428 ms 409 ms 409 ms 217.218.155.202
11 401 ms 409 ms 409 ms 217.218.127.246
12 384 ms 409 ms 337 ms vlan625.orion.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir
[62.220.96.113]
13 400 ms 510 ms 412 ms vl637.orion.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir
[62.220.99.1]
14 384 ms 409 ms 409 ms 62.220.100.10
15 * 366 ms 409 ms fe0-20.selena.bb.noc.tehran.sinet.ir
[62.220.101.182]
16 397 ms 367 ms 347 ms 87.107.82.3
17 361 ms 340 ms 416 ms 81.12.50.2
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * ^C
- - ferg
I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect.
Steve Pirk wrote:
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are
unable to connect out.Anyone hear of anything?
Given the recent election and the unrest that is also being reported,
I'd bet that it was unplugged or turned off, not that it is down. Or,
is there another Operator's Group for that world region? Maybe the
discussion simply hasn't filtered over yet.
Reese
the menog lists require you to subscribe to
view the archives. (So this could be redundant to content
there.. i am not on their list).
I checked one ISP I know about in Tehran and they appear
to be up. This doesn't seem to be an like what was seen with Myanmar(Burma)
turning off the tubes. (At least not yet).
I'm keeping an eye on things, if people in those parts of
the world need some backup dns or other things, I am sure there are plenty
of people here that can help.
- Jared
No, this conversation is not also occuring on the MENOG list.
-Bill
Maybe there's just a lot of congestion and it's not actually down?
Happens here (Australia) on some mobile networks at large events - just not enough bandwidth to go around and so you can't make calls and sms are delayed. Given that there's a lot of protests etc and a lot of people out and about in Tehran it could be similar.
MMC
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
Steve Pirk wrote:
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet
access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are
unable to connect out.Anyone hear of anything?
Given the recent election and the unrest that is also being reported,
I'd bet that it was unplugged or turned off, not that it is down. Or,
is there another Operator's Group for that world region? Maybe the
discussion simply hasn't filtered over yet.the menog lists require you to subscribe to
view the archives. (So this could be redundant to content
there.. i am not on their list).
I am on MENOG. There has been no discussion of this topic there, at least so far.
Regards
Marshall
Hello,
We examined yesterday's BGP advertisement patterns for evidence of
transit change, outage and instability (the outage and instability
pattern was fairly obvious, but certainly didn't look like a natural
disaster). Anyway, we did notice a rather unmistakeable transit
shift to TTNet for all paths inbound to 12880 (DCI) the primary
transit provider in Iran. For a bit more detail, you can check out
our story [0]. Thanks again to all of our BGP peers!
- -Martin
[0] http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/strange-changes-in-iranian-int.shtml
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Martin A. Brown --- Renesys Corporation --- mabrown@renesys.com