Syria Internet Traffic Goes “Dark”

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Syria Traffic Goes “Dark” As Country Disappears From Internet







Zero Hedge
May 7, 2013

While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday
morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when
according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria
has literally gone “dark“, or, as Umbrella Security Labs describes it, as if “Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.”



Some more from Umbrella’s blog:


At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant
drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has
largely disappeared from the Internet.

The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Although Twitter remains relatively silent, the drop in both inbound and
outbound traffic from Syria is clearly visible. The small amount of
outbound traffic depicted by the chart indicates our DNS servers trying
to reach DNS servers in Syria.



Currently both TLD servers for Syria, ns1.tld.sy and
ns2.tld.sy are unreachable. The remaining two nameservers
sy.cctld.authdns.ripe.net. and pch.anycast.tld.sy. are reachable since
they are not within Syria.

The Umbrella Security Labs also reported on an Internet blackout in Syria November of 2012, where we shared details of the top 10 most failed domains during the outage.