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 and to INET also in Damascus, are shown below using the Smokeping facility. The host names were unresolvable at 2100 11/29/2012, so we could not try a traceroute.
Thawra Online (last 3 days) |
iNET (last 3 days) |
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Thawra Online (last 120 days) |
iNET (last 120 days) |
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The unreachability (black bars in the 3 days plot) starting around 11:00am on November 29th are clearly visible. We will continue to monitor to see if and when reachability is resumed.
The black bars around 2012-08-21, 2012-09-08 and 2012-11-13 were SLAC PingER monitoring host outages.
Looking at the 120 days graphs it is seen that there were increased losses (increase in yellow background colors) starting around 2012-09-20 in both cases. More recently (see the 3 days plots) these increased for a while to over 20% (more red background colors).
A Google map of Damascus showing the two sites (green balloons) and identifying the Thawra host is shown below; 