As dawn broke in Libya on the morning of Sunday 21 August, it appeared that the battle for control of Tripoli was underway. Throughout the night, a steady stream of tweets and retweets emerged from Libyan sources, painting a confusing, often contradictory picture of the evolving situation.Renesys is still piecing together the data that can confirm or deny much of what’s been reported overnight, but one thing is clear: something very strange was going on with Tripoli residents’ Internet access. Service was restored suddenly in Tripoli, flickered on and off for a couple of hours, and then died, with the majority of the country’s international BGP routes withdrawn from service for good measure. Today the routes are back in Tripoli, but ADSL service isn’t. This morning we’re looking back at this curious overnight episode, and speculate about what might have happened.To read this report originally published on the Renesys blog in full, see:
www.renesys.com/blog/2011/08/the-battle-for-tripolis-intern.shtml
www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-cowie/the-battle-for-tripolis-i_b_932680.htmlAlso see:Libya starts to reconnect to internet
Libya’s internet connections appear to be slowly coming back online after a six-month blackout.The state-run internet service provider (ISP) carried a message on its website that said: “Libya, one tribe”.However, local people have reported patchy reliability with connections coming and going.Internet traffic in Libya dropped to almost nothing in early March when Colonel Gaddafi’s government pulled the plug in an attempt to suppress dissent.
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