At 10:30 AM GMT yesterday, 29 November 2012,
routing to Yemen suddenly changed from London to Dubai through FLAG
to New York to Dubai through ETISALAT,
as shown in the animation here and
detailed in the PerilWatch from InternetPerils.
That timing closely matched the
10:26 AM GMT Syrian disconnect time reported by Renesys.
This is very reminiscent of
Mubarak disconnecting Egypt 22:30 GMT 20 January 2011.
This tactic didn’t help Mubarak’s regime in Egypt, and it probably won’t
help Assad’s regime in Syria; rather the opposite: people don’t like
their Internet being turned off.
And it tends to cause the international community to rally around the rebels.
-jsq
On 27 January 2011 the Egyptian government cut off cell phone and
Internet access to the outside world.
Here’s what routing looked like to six destinations inside Egypt
as that happened.
The InternetPerils