The “No Internet in Iran” Story is Bullcrap | |
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F.B.Nyte User ID: 367872 United States 02/04/2008 04:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, Here's another link to back up your story: [link to www.renesys.com] <snip> So back to Iran. In the following graph, we plotted the availability of Iranian networks for four entire days, 30 January 00:00 UTC until 3 February 00:00 UTC. The first day is the day of the cable cuts. Of the 695 networks that geo-locate to Iran, at no time were more than 199 unavailable, as observed by large number of Renesys peers. A few peers here and there might not have been able to reach Iran for local reasons, but the vast majority of the world could get to most of the networks in Iran for this entire time period. Note also that around 64 networks were unavailable before the event even started. These networks could be simply unused at this time. In other words, at most 135 networks that were active before the cable cuts disappeared for at least a short while during the outages. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 367715 United States 02/04/2008 05:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367822it's NOT strange. it's called a firewall, icmp packets are not important...they rather represent a security hole. the iranian firewall simply blocks the icmp protocol. yesterday i had a similair lamer aka n00b comment...that guy thought he's the big woowoo because he knows how whois worxs. but he obviously knew nada. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 367822 Norway 02/04/2008 05:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367715it's NOT strange. it's called a firewall, icmp packets are not important...they rather represent a security hole. the iranian firewall simply blocks the icmp protocol. yesterday i had a similair lamer aka n00b comment...that guy thought he's the big woowoo because he knows how whois worxs. but he obviously knew nada. I didn't claim I knew better, I was just baffled.... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 367715 United States 02/04/2008 05:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367822it's NOT strange. it's called a firewall, icmp packets are not important...they rather represent a security hole. the iranian firewall simply blocks the icmp protocol. yesterday i had a similair lamer aka n00b comment...that guy thought he's the big woowoo because he knows how whois worxs. but he obviously knew nada. I didn't claim I knew better, I was just baffled.... yeah i know, and it's ok. i was only talking about the other dimwit from yesterday. not everybody worx in the computer field. but some should rather stfu before making such stupid claims. again: NOT talking about you...just talking about people who have no clue, yet brag with their "knowledge". |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 367715 United States 02/04/2008 05:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | maybe, for a short time, they were indeed off the inet. but one can compensate this very fast by using sats. maybe their cables are really not working, maybe they do but maybe they now got sat connections. who knows...i only know that we the normal people always only can speculate, we never get the full truth. |