[null and void]

#5: I heard on the radio Monday that lots of internet sites have been slowed down, but no one knows how, who, or why.

On the 29th, one of my contacts said:

Been doing tracert to FR from command prompt.
Interesting results.
The problem is NOT FR's servers.
It's the internet backbone itself.
It's as if traffic to FR and other sites that have been
critical of Dear Leader has been... helped.

To which he added today:

DemUn was rather fast last I was able to check.

Now isn't that a remarkable coinky-dink?

[Nachum]

Now isn't that a remarkable coinky-dink?

Just as my site (nachumlist) was attacked the day before the first convention. Just a coincidence I'm sure.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Just wait until next Tuesday, we may have no internet service at all. Just sayin’...

[sten]

traceroutes look fairly normal with consistent ping times

any slow down seems to be on the server and not the network

[Red Badger]

Not denial of service, just a slooooooooooooooowing of service...........

[MestaMachine]

I ran a trace and found something kind of interesting. The first time I found it was by accident...and it disappeared. I couldn't get it back to save my life.
Then yesterday, bam, there it was again. This time I got it. Look.

All the hops between PSI and NTT are Afrinic nodes.

I checked for the 154 designation and lo and behold:

It's Mauritius, the huge banking center.

Since we are having a Freepathon, I was wondering if they might be up to no good. Another reason might be that we have been following Benghazi so closely, but the slowdown started before that, didn't it?

Here is the whois:

% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to '154.0.0.0 - 154.255.255.255'

inetnum: 154.0.0.0 - 154.255.255.255
netname: AFRINIC-20090508
descr:
descr: AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net
descr: Allocation for Africa - This block is in use
descr: by AfriNIC for allocating/assigning to networks
descr: in the AfriNIC service region.
descr: More information - whois.afrinic.net.
descr: Abuse - please querry the whois db for the
descr: contacts of the assigned/allocated prefix.
descr:
country: MU
org: ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
admin-c: EMB2-AFRINIC
tech-c: EMB2-AFRINIC
status: ALLOCATED-UNSPECIFIED
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
parent: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255
organisation: ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
org-name: African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC Ltd)
org-type: RIR
country: MU
address: 11th Floor,
address: Raffles Tower,
address: Lot 19
address: Cybercity
e-mail: contact@afrinic.net
e-mail: cto@afrinic.net
phone: +230 941 6610
fax-no: +230 466 6758
admin-c: AF7-AFRINIC
tech-c: AF7-AFRINIC
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-DB-MNT
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
remarks: =======================================
remarks: For more information on AFRINIC assigned blocks,
remarks: querry whois.afrinic.net port 43, or the web based
remarks: query at http://whois.afrinic.net or
www.afrinic.net
remarks: website: www.afrinic.net
remarks: Other Contacts:
remarks: ===============
remarks: hostmaster@afrinic.net - for IP resources
remarks: new-member@afrinic.net - for new members and other
remarks: inquiries.
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
person: ERNEST MWIRIMA BYARUHANGA
address: AfriNIC
phone: +230 403 5100
fax-no: +230 466 6758
e-mail: ernest@afrinic.net
nic-hdl: EMB2-AFRINIC
mnt-by: ernest-mnt
source: AFRINIC # Filtered

[DallasDeb]

Perhaps that episode with the FBI and the internet last summery was a practice run for shutting down some sites.