Syria seems to once again cut Internet - Clubic - Clubic

Google and several specialized companies report that Syria seems totally off the Internet since Tuesday. The country had already suffered a similar incident last November.

doors that connect to the Internet appear Syria closed Wednesday report several specialists network actors. The break, which seems complete, began on Tuesday May 7 to 21 hours (Paris time). Google, which publishes access to its services statistics from different regions of the world, visually reflects the interruption of service via its Transparency Report, but were to advance an explanation.

Umbrella Security Labs (attached to OpenDSN) book the same conclusion by giving some additional technical details. According to him, these are the servers that operate the network connection between the Syrian and the rest of the Internet that do not respond to queries. “This break disconnects Syria Internet communications with the rest of the world. It is not known whether Internet communications inside Syria are still available , “he says, also without comment further possible causes.

Same story on the side of Renesys, which publishes in addition to its graphics reflecting cut a map showing how Syria is physically connected to the rest of the network. Unlike France, where the operators maintain multiple connections with their counterparts around the world, access to the Syrian network occurs only through two entrance doors, both managed by a pharmacy-dependent government, Syrian Telecommunications Establishment. Due to the distributed nature very little, the connection between Syria and the rest of the world is vulnerable to failures … or deliberate cuts.

measurement tool managed the University of California (Cyclops) shows him hear about the different equipment dedicated to the connection between Syria and the rest of the world have stopped responding to requests in a quasi- simultaneously.

Syria had already been the victim of such a cut in November. The outage had lasted more then two days. The official news agency SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency), attached to the system, was then invoked to explain the “ maintenance ” on the national network. Syrian Information Minister had meanwhile advanced on state television that the cut was caused by actions “terrorists” led by opponents of the regime