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On the other hand, the traceroute goes through London, see below and the 16th hop from the name suggest Alexandria and the 17th hop is close by.
Noor Group http://www.noor.net/ (which is one of the major network services providers in Egypt) 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.
www.noor.net was pingable at 12:00 EST 1/30/2011.
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pinger@pinger $ ping www.noor.net
PING noor.net (217.139.227.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 217.139.227.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=109 time=218 ms
64 bytes from 217.139.227.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=109 time=216 ms
64 bytes from 217.139.227.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=109 time=216 ms
--- noor.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 216.394/217.059/218.364/0.997 ms, pipe 2
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I have added it to the hosts we ping in Egypt.