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Noor Group http://www.noor.net/ (which is or AS20928, is one of the major network services providers in Egypt and used by the Egyptian Stock Exchange.) still appears to be online. Reported by http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/28/how-egypt-killed-the-internet/. It might be possible that the bibalex.org site is connected via this network or any other network in Egypt that is still accessible to the outside world. See here

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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.

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 frcu.eun.eg (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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