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[jeffreyab]

Well Iran is still cut off from the Internet:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

However they are able to reach space having just launched a rocket to there:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22995937/

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/iris.htm

Coincidence?

Or a lack of priority in technologies?

Comments

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

The chart only shows that one router isn't responding to one monitoring system. It doesn't show if:
* the router has a high CPU load and is discarding SMTP packets in favor of TCP and UDP (i.e. useful) traffic
* an access list has been applied to block SMTP monitoring
* the fully-qualified domain name and/or IP address of the monitored system has changed


As for Iran's missile, I haven't seen any public evidence that the thing actually achieved its mission objective. Of course the technology isn't secret, it's just expensive, so it should be possible for Iran to put astronauts into orbit if they want to spend the money.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Pi mentioned that as well, so I am going to check my sources on that.

About the missile, going to space was done by a V2 so its conceivable they have done that.

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

It appears that some Iranian web sites are down, but most Iranian government and media sites physically located in Iran (for example, www.iran.ir) are still connected to the Internet. I checked traceroutes going across Turkey. There's no pattern here specific to Iran; circuit outages are affecting users from Egypt to India. The Internet backbone in the region is functioning.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Yes, to me it now seems more to be an indication of infrastructure needing to be upgraded.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Something went up anyway:

http://www.irannegah.com/Video.aspx?id=461