Internet failure hits two continents

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.


Hi-tech Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.

Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.

Reports say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.

Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. Many Middle East governments have backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.

Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, a research company that consults on global Internet issues, said the damaged cables collectively account for the majority of international communications between Europe and the Middle East.

:dunce:

of those cut off and those who were not...

Professor Prune did it in the Communications Room with a Vibrator?

(names changed to protect that game by Milton Bradley that everyone hates for some reason)

not above any suspicion. They have proved their capabilites. There is nothing that would surprise me. Who are they = who wants Iran? We all talk about the capabilities of Iran to fight back if attacked - not if they can't track and communicate.

Iran has 100% packet loss.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

But I wouldn't read into it that much, ITR has a history of listing routers that are no longer operational or have changed to a different IP.

Did the Internet Fairy not get her paycheck or sumthin'?

brought it to the surface with their rig. Then chopped it loose without caring
about anything except their rig. I can see an oyster trawler doing it. Those
rigs tear the hell out of the bottom scraping up oysters.

(Hey Slad? You ever gonna reply to that pm I sent you a week ago? )

This morning it was only one..?

the BFEE cabal cable cutters...