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The “No Internet in Iran” Story is Bullcrap

 
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The “No Internet in Iran” Story is Bullcrap
The “No Internet in Iran” Story is Bullcrap,

but that Didn’t Stop 17 People from Submitting
it to cryptogon.com



February 4, 2008



I don’t expect people to know much about computers, but the story about Iran having no Internet access is complete nonsense.

It scares the living crap out of me that so many Cryptogon readers are propagating this nonsense without even trying to verify whether or not the story is true. (In fairness, one Cryptogon reader who submitted it later wrote that, by the same measure, Florida had no Internet services. HAHA)

The page that all of you are submitting monitors one router, which happens to be down, at the Iran University of Science and Technology. Somehow, through the magic bullshit amplification powers of the Intertubes, the fact that one router is down at an Iranian university has snowballed into "Iran is off the air."

Oh really?

Why not check out the Iran University of Science and Technology’s homepage?

[link to www.iust.ac.ir]
IP: 194.225.230.89
Machine Location: Tehran, Iran

How about the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

[link to www.mfa.gov.ir]
IP: 217.172.99.41
Machine Location: Tehran, Iran

How about the Central Bank of The Islamic Republic of Iran?

[link to www.cbi.ir]
IP: 217.218.174.178
Machine Location: Tehran, Iran

Hint: Don’t believe everything you read on Reddit and Slashdot.


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ANOTHER THREAD DEBUNKED HMMMMMMMMMMM
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02/04/2008 04:45 PM
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think all internet goes by cable dumbass?
And I said, "What is this, the burning bush? For God's sake, I'm not Moses."

And the Voice said to me: "And I'm not God. What has that got to do with it?"
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02/04/2008 04:53 PM
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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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02/04/2008 05:07 PM
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That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... wtf
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02/04/2008 05:18 PM
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That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... wtf
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367822

it'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.
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02/04/2008 05:20 PM
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That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... wtf

it'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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367715


I didn't claim I knew better, I was just baffled.... hf
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02/04/2008 05:24 PM
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That is strange though, because I get 100% packet loss when pinging those.... wtf

it'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.... hf
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367822

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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02/04/2008 05:27 PM
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I love how this ridiculously obvious post is started by some one named..."STOP KNEE JERK POSTS". The irony is stunning. As if the poster thought it may be true that there is NO internet in IRAN. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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02/04/2008 05:30 PM
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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.





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