Iran has no internet connectivity now

Bob Morris, on Feb 5, 2008, 10:53 pm

With four underseas cables in the Middle East having been severed.

Eli Stephens
February 6, 2008 at 12:12 am
Don’t you think it would be a good idea to check before passing on rumors? Islamic Republic News Agency, Press TV (Iran’s al Jazeera), both with .ir addresses, both appear instantly.
Bob Morris
February 6, 2008 at 9:35 am
Read the entire post I linked to, then go to what they linked to.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
shows 0% connectivity to Iran.
Bruce Schneier is hardly one to spread unsubstaniated rumors.
Eli Stephens
February 6, 2008 at 9:59 am
I don’t know who “internettrafficreport” is. And it IS true that if I try to ping the specific router mentioned in their report (router1.iust.ac.ir) I get no response. But I can ping the others (e.g., irna.ir) just fine. Just for fun this morning, I Googled one of the other Iranian things that came to mind – Isfahan University. Here’s the website that Google produces:
http://www.iut.ac.ir/persian/index.php
And yes, it comes up instantly, just like the rest.
The claim that there is “zero internet connectivity” to Iran is bullshit, pure and simple. It seems there are problems, and I don’t rule out that someone is working their way towards such a cutoff. But the claim that it exists now is flat out wrong.
Ten Bears
February 6, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Asymmetrical Fourth Generation Warfare is a double-edged sword. Attacks on infrastructure are attacks on infrastructure, regardless whether the actor is state or not. The Corporation is a decidedly non-state actor.

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