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My wife's first thought when she heard about Syria's lack of internet was that the sitting government is about to start a nasty offensive. This was a good read
by jimktrains2 14y ago
My wife's first thought when she heard about Syria's lack of internet was that the sitting government is about to start a nasty offensive.
This was a good read and informative. One question, though.
> When the outage happened, the BGP routes to Syrian IP space were all simultaneously withdrawn from all of Syria's upstream providers.
Does withdrawn mean not advertised or was a message sent out saying these routes are no longer available?
- jorts 14y agoI believe that once it stops routing most providers will shut you off relatively quickly to prevent BGP from flapping. I'm sure that someone else could articulate this better than me.
- eastdakota 14y agoOnce a route is withdrawn (either from the router going offline, a cable being cut, or someone adjusting the routing tables) upstream peers will drop the path very quickly (typically in seconds).