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According to the PingER data, www.noor.net was no longer accessible starting after Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:30:18 GMT and before Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:00:44 GMT. At this time Monday 22:00 EST it is still inaccessable, as are all the other hosts monitored by PingER in Egypt. See here where it states that NOOR became completely unreachable at around 10:46 p.m. Cairo time (Eastern European Time).
Restoration
At 5:09 pm 2/1/2011 EST www.bibalex.org was accessible on port 80, see the synack results. The traceroute is the same as before apparently going through FLAGTEL in London. However www.noor.net was not pingable, in fact its name did not resolve.
Following the announcement that Egypt had started to restore links to the Internet, we noted that We saw www.noor.net to again be reachable sometime after 10:30:00 and before 11:00:32 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 GMT. At 10:40pm GMT frcu
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frcu.eun.eg was not reachable by ping from SLAC. Also sites like www.helwan.edu.eg were not resolvable at this time.(the Egyptian Universities Network host) became reachable/pingable from SLAC between 8:00 and 9:00am February 6th, 2011 GMT.
The National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science (NARSS) PingER monitoring host in Cairo started making PingER measurements again between 12:00noon and 1:00pm on February 8th, 2011 GMT and it could be seen from SLAC between midnight and 1:00am February 7th, 2011 GMT.
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Other links
- Blog on monitoring the shutdown
- How Egypt killed the Internet
- The internet goes dark in Egypt
- Cairo mania Egypt cuts the net
- Egypt unrest How do you shut down Internet service in an entire country
- Egypt Cisco and Juniper won't go there
- 012811: Internet blackout Egypt
- Without Internet Egyptians find new ways to get online
- Mobile phone service restored in Egypt
- Internet Kill Switch
- Egypt shuts down its last ISP
- Egypt restore links to Internet
- Egypt lifts blockade on the Internet