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Syria

On 6/3/2011 CNN reported, and James Cowie of Renesys — an oft-quoted source during the Egypt revolution and the Internet shutdown there in January blogged that only networks belonging to the Syrian government are still reachable (see here). The Internet was restored on June 4th 2011.

PingER monitors two hosts in Syria: www.inp.org.sy (bills itself as Syria's Information point) and www.inet.sy bill's iself as iNET and located at Al-Mohajreen, Damascus, Syria P.O.Box 3523). They are both located in Damascus. Both were responding to pings as of 23:30 June 2nd, 2011. As of today we have not been able to ping www.inet.sy. However www.inp.org.sy is still responding.

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