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That meant that virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses were unreachable. More here. A plot of Internet traffic with Egypt is shown below:
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From SLAC (USA)
From SLAC, using PingER, we saw Helwan University and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science stopped responding between 23:30 26 Jan 2011 and 00:30 27 Jan 2011. The Egyptian Universities Network site was still accessible from SLAC until 23:30 28 Jan 2011, and then became inaccessible.
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Noor Group http://www.noor.net/ (which 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
www.noor.net was pingable at 12:00 EST 1/30/2011.
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- Blog on monitoring the shutdown
- http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/28/how-egypt-killed-the-internet/
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-internet-goes-dark-in-egypt/613?tag=nl.e539
- http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/cairo-mania-egypt-cuts-the-net-807?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-01-29
- http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0128/Egypt-unrest-How-do-you-shut-down-Internet-service-in-an-entire-country
- http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/egypt-cisco-and-juniper-wont-go-there?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cisco_2011-01-31
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012811-internet-blackout-egypt.html