Syria hit by yet another Internet outage
Syria has again been cut off from the rest of the online world.
Internet access for the battle-torn country has been down since Wednesday, 7:01 UTC (Tuesday, 11:01 p.m. PST), according to an update from Internet monitoring firm Renesys. A tweet from Renesys says that BGP (border gateway patrol) is down, inbound traceroutes are failing, and DNS severs and government Web sites are down.
A tweet from the state-run Syrian news agency says that workers are trying to fix the problem and get the Internet back as soon as possible.
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