Introduction
Starting at 10:26 UTC on Thursday, 29 November (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria's international Internet connectivity shut down.
The PingER half hourly measurements from SLAC to Thawra online publishing for the press in Damascus are shown below. The host name was unresolvable at 2100 11/29/2012, so we could not try a traceroute.
and a similar outage to //www.inet.sy.