Syria Drops Off Internet

Lightbulb Sun

Looks like the Assad regime are the ones responsible for this.

Web security firm Umbrella Security Labs has reported that at around 18:45 UTC, the whole of Syria was disconnected from the internet.

OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it says, "it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet."

The graph provided by Umbrella below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria. Twitter remains relatively silent and the drop in both inbound and outbound traffic from Syria is clearly visible. The small amount of outbound traffic depicted by the chart indicates our DNS servers trying to reach DNS servers in Syria.

Various Twitter users are reporting the same.
Syria has experienced Internet "blackouts" over the course of the last few years. Some of the incidents have lasted less than one hour.

In November 2012, one blackout lasted approximately two days, effectively cutting off the nation from the rest of the world.

Internet monitoring service Renesys, which reported the November outage, also confirmed this one: "Renesys confirms loss of Syrian Internet connectivity 18:43 UTC. BGP routes down, inbound traces failing."



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biko

It's not the first time a country has been without internet.
Last time a Georgian woman cut off web access to whole of Armenia while scavenging for copper.

Dodd

I think that is the least of their worries.

I mean with loads of people getting killed there every day.?

Fr_Dougal

Have they tried turning their router off and back on again? Usually works for me.

Custardpi

Dodd wrote: »

I think that is the least of their worries.

I mean with loads of people getting killed there every day.?

On the other hand, if such was going to be your lot anyway (& sadly for the Syrians on both sides of the civil war that will probably be the case for the next while) wouldn't it be better to have access to kittens, p0rn & the wisdom of Justin Bieber to take your mind off it?

Mr Benevolent

No-one cares.

Tar.Aldarion

I applaud your weird spam horse man.

minidazzler

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

No-one cares.

Actually, I'm sure a lot of people do. A country on the brink of civil war, in the middle of civil unrest that we can't even imagine has just cut it's internet off as a means to stop the people who are revolting from communicating effectively. It's a pretty big deal in the region.

You're a bit more malevolent than benevolent aren't you?

Seaneh

minidazzler wrote: »

Actually, I'm sure a lot of people do. A country on the brink of civil war, in the middle of civil unrest that we can't even imagine has just cut it's internet off as a means to stop the people who are revolting from communicating effectively. It's a pretty big deal in the region.

You're a bit more malevolent than benevolent aren't you?

Er, they are well over a year into a civil war, not on the brink of it...

Mr Benevolent

minidazzler wrote: »

You're a bit more malevolent than benevolent aren't you?

You've obviously never listened to Bleak Expectations.

SafeSurfer

minidazzler wrote: »

Actually, I'm sure a lot of people do. A country on the brink of civil war, in the middle of civil unrest that we can't even imagine has just cut it's internet off as a means to stop the people who are revolting from communicating effectively. It's a pretty big deal in the region.

You're a bit more malevolent than benevolent aren't you?

Internet access will be the least of their worries when the Americans start bombing.

Remmy

usually liveleak's main page would have a good few syrian conflict clips but it has been a while since I have seen one. It is pretty crazy that someone with enough power can effectively silence a nation.

Seaneh

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Internet access will be the least of their worries when the Americans start bombing.

America and Israel will level the country "bringing freedom and democracy" and then America's sock puppet of a "prime minister" of the interim government will be put into power with his Muslim Brotherhood friends.

Lovely alternative to Assad.

Seaneh

Pushtrak wrote: »

James Randi is famous for taking her on...

What?

lightspeed

In November 2012, one blackout lasted approximately two days, effectively cutting off the nation from the rest of the world. [/QUOTE]

So basically without internet, the place was like north korea?

Were there no phones?

the groutch

can they not just head on down Californee way?

Riddle101

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Have they tried turning their router off and back on again? Usually works for me.

If they're using vista, then it won't work.

Wacker The Attacker

Back to the skinny mags with syria

Wacker The Attacker

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Internet access will be the least of their worries when the Americans start bombing.

Israel are doing their dirty work at the moment

Guy:Incognito

minidazzler wrote: »

Actually, I'm sure a lot of people do. A country on the brink of civil war, in the middle of civil unrest that we can't even imagine has just cut it's internet off as a means to stop the people who are revolting from communicating effectively. It's a pretty big deal in the region.

You're a bit more malevolent than benevolent aren't you?

Theres quite a lot of revolting people on porn sites. Im glad when a few of them lose internet access tbh.

Freddy Smelly

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Have they tried turning their router off and back on again? Usually works for me.

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