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On August 5h 5th 2019 India revoked the special status of Jammu Kashmir (see here) which led to unrest.

It would be interesting to see if there is any impact on the Internet connectivity to Universities in Jammu Kashmir that is correlated with the recent or future changes/responses.

To do this we need targets that are located in Jammu Kashmir. We can find universities that are located in JK using Wikipedia.

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However, we are by no means sure the target hosts are really in Jammu Kashmir (e.g. they maybe may be proxies in say Delhi, or Mumbai).

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  • http://202.12.103.71/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=traceroute&target=www.skuast.org&options=-i%200.2 to run a traceroute from Amity.
  • Pings to wwwfrom pinger.vu.edu.pk to www.skuast.org appear org:
    appear as:
    Executing exec(traceroute -m 30 -q 3 103202.3566.120174.78254 140)
    traceroute to 103202.3566.120174.78254 (103202.3566.120174.78254), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets
     1  10111.368.20103.146 (10111.368.20103.146)  02.486516 ms  02.730596 ms  02.891941 ms
     2  10pern2-dgw.1vu.2edu.254pk (10111.168.2103.25449)  02.633686 ms  02.433733 ms  03.798026 ms
     3  10172.131.1252.54237 (10172.131.1252.54237)  03.822760 ms  04.598027 ms  14.050068 ms
     4  10172.131.100240.137 (10172.131.100240.137)  02.375724 ms  03.380009 ms  03.376052 ms
     5  10tw21-static61.0tw1.11.1com (10117.020.1121.161)  03.841486 ms  13.021550 ms  03.824599 ms
     6  111110.6893.101.1.nust.edu.pk253.226 (111110.6893.101253.1226)  119.991598 ms 110.93.254.142 (110.93.254.142)  19.219 ms 110.93.253.226 (110.93.253.226)  17.790 ms
     7  110.93.253.166 (110.93.253.166)  21.519 ms 110.93.252.172 (110.93.252.172)  18.901 ms  25.667 ms
     8  9498.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.40)  103.922 ms  104.838 ms  102.564 ms
     9  182.79.190.73 (182.79.190.73)  235.072 ms 182.79.149.252 (182.79.149.252)  237.938 ms 182.79.135.26 (182.79.135.26)  242.661 ms
    10  dsl-ncr-static-114.67.16.125.airtelbroadband.in (125.16.67.114)  282.086 ms  287.454 ms  287.204 ms
    11  180.179.197.66 (180.179.197.66)  299.453 ms 180.179.197.58 (180.179.197.58)  295.586 ms  294.574 ms
    12  180.179.195.181 (180.179.195.181)  294.956 ms  306.754 ms  304.171 ms
    13  * * *

    From monitor.seecs.edu.pk to www.skuast.org:

    Executing exec(traceroute, -m 30 -q 3 -f 3, 103.35.120.78, 140)
    traceroute to 103.35.120.78 (103.35.120.78), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets
     4  10.1.100.1 (10.1.100.1)  0.705 ms  0.428 ms  0.366 ms
     5  10.0.11.1 (10.0.11.1)  1.154 ms  1.102 ms  1.289 ms
     6  111.68.101.1.nust.edu.pk (111.68.101.1)  1.983 ms  2.174 ms  2.120 ms
     7  172.31.252.25 (172.31.252.25)  2.559 ms  2.449 ms  2.142 ms
     8  tw23-static237.tw1.com (117.20.23.237)  1.707 ms  2.296 ms  10.764 ms
     9  110.93.252.98 (110.93.252.98)  18.836 ms  18.776 ms  18.720 ms
    10  110.93.253.166 (110.93.253.166)  21.470 ms  19.279 ms  21.353 ms
    11  9498.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.40)  106.105 ms  107.032 ms  105.505 ms
    12  182.79.149.20 (182.79.149.20)  259.644 ms 182.79.149.18 (182.79.149.18)  272.084 ms  276.134 ms
    13  * * *
    14  203.100.78.10 (203.100.78.10)  308.708 ms  306.042 ms  306.818 ms
    15  vps21.pugmarks.in (103.35.120.24)  308.732 ms  309.289 ms  309.475 ms
    16  * * *
  • Pings from monitor.seecs.edu.pk to  www.iustlive.com appear as:
    Executing exec(traceroute -m 30 -q 3 202.66.174.254 140)
    traceroute to 202.66.174.254 (202.66.174.254), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets
     1  10.3.20.1 (10.3.20.1)  0.584 ms  1.000 ms  1.237 ms
     2  10.1.2.254 (10.1.2.254)  0.789 ms  0.443 ms  0.586 ms
     3  10.1.1.22 (10.1.1.22)  10.725 ms  10.962 ms  11.100 ms
     4  10.1.100.1 (10.1.100.1)  0.605 ms  0.383 ms  0.663 ms
     5  10.0.11.1 (10.0.11.1)  1.064 ms  0.780 ms  1.009 ms
     6  111.68.101.1.nust.edu.pk (111.68.101.1)  1.989 ms  1.815 ms  1.746 1.840 ms  1.585 ms
     7  172.31.252.25 (172.31.252.25)  2.822188 ms  2.810323 ms  2.808073 ms
     8  tw23-static237.tw1.com (117.20.23.237)  12.447604 ms  2.441476 ms  2.437521 ms
     9  110.93.254252.14098 (110.93.254252.14098)  23.575663 ms  23.581778 ms  23.815716 ms
    10  110.93.253.166 (110.93.253.166)  24.364523 ms  24.347585 ms  24.331542 ms
    11  9498.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.40)  104.280193 ms  104.360053 ms  111104.019431 ms
    12  182.79.149190.1669 (182.79.149190.1669)  252239.888589 ms 182.79.149.18252 (182.79.149.18252)  256247.297328 ms 182.79.149135.2026 (182.79.149135.2026)  257242.200917 ms
    13  aesdsl-ncr-static-174114.12367.1716.125.airtelairtelbroadband.in (125.1716.12367.174114)  306296.220496 ms  308302.392597 ms  306296.657965 ms
    14  203.100.78.10 (203.100.78.10)  308.182 ms  308.236 ms  306.584180.179.197.58 (180.179.197.58)  286.933 ms 180.179.197.66 (180.179.197.66)  297.869 ms 180.179.197.58 (180.179.197.58)  291.975 ms
    15  vps21180.179.pugmarks195.in181 (103180.35179.120195.24181)  308311.510129 ms  308305.721208 ms  307304.485978 ms 
    16 * * *
    Pings to www.iustlive.com appear as

    or later:

    Executing exec(traceroute -m 30 -q 3 202103.6635.174120.25478 140)
    traceroute to 202103.6635.174120.25478 (202103.6635.174120.25478), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets
     1  10.3.20.1 (10.3.20.1)  0.584486 ms  10.000730 ms  10.237891 ms
     2  10.1.2.254 (10.1.2.254)  0.789633 ms  0.443433 ms  0.586798 ms
     3  10.1.1.2254 (10.1.1.2254)  100.725822 ms  100.962598 ms  111.100050 ms
     4  10.1.100.1 (10.1.100.1)  0.605375 ms  0.383380 ms  0.663376 ms
     5  10.0.11.1 (10.0.11.1)  10.064841 ms  01.780021 ms  10.009824 ms
     6  111.68.101.1.nust.edu.pk (111.68.101.1)  1.989991 ms  1.815840 ms  1.746585 ms
     7  172.31.252.25 (172.31.252.25)  2.188822 ms  2.323810 ms  2.073808 ms
     8  tw23-static237.tw1.com (117.20.23.237)  21.604447 ms  2.476441 ms  2.521437 ms
     9  110.93.252254.98140 (110.93.252254.98140)  23.663575 ms  23.778581 ms  23.716815 ms
    10  110.93.253.166 (110.93.253.166)  24.523364 ms  24.585347 ms  24.542331 ms
    11  9498.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.40)  104.193280 ms  104.053360 ms  104111.431019 ms
    12  182.79.190149.6916 (182.79.190149.6916)  239252.589888 ms 182.79.149.25218 (182.79.149.25218)  247256.328297 ms 182.79.135149.2620 (182.79.135149.2620)  242257.917200 ms
    13  dsl-ncraes-static-114174.67123.1617.125.airtelbroadbandairtel.in (125.1617.67123.114174)  296306.496220 ms  302308.597392 ms  296.965 ms
    14  180.179.197.58 (180.179.197.58)  286.933 ms 180.179.197.66 (180.179.197.66)  297.869 ms 180.179.197.58 (180.179.197.58)  291.975 ms
    15  180.179.195.181 (180.179.195.181)  311.129 ms  305.208 ms  304.978 ms
    16  * * *306.657 ms
    14  203.100.78.10 (203.100.78.10)  308.182 ms  308.236 ms  306.584 ms [AS24515/AS9430/AS4058]
    15  vps21.pugmarks.in (103.35.120.24)  308.510 ms  308.721 ms  307.485 ms [AS134255/AS38546]

I tried using https://hackertarget.com/as-ip-lookup/ and https://www.ultratools.com/tools/asnInfo to find the AS of 9498.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.40) as well as 182.79.190.69 but without success.

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