[Measurement-wg] Measuring Internet Resilience - Uganda Internet shutdown

Amreesh Phokeer amreesh at afrinic.net
Tue Jan 19 16:51:24 UTC 2021


Hello Paulos,

You can see some data collected and analysis done in these multiple places.

As you can see, BGP prefixes were removed, most probably BGP sessions were shut down.

OONI Explorer:
https://explorer.ooni.org/country/UG#overview

ISOC Insights:
https://insights.internetsociety.org/shutdowns/4992

RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/our-first-glance-at-the-uganda-internet-shutdown

CAIDA IODA:
https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#from=-1w&until=now&view=inspect&entity=country/UG&lastView=overview

Oracle Intelligence:
https://map.internetintel.oracle.com/?root=national&country=UG

AFRINIC AIRRS:
https://airrs.afrinic.net/ug

Uganda-IX traffic:
https://portal.uixp.co.ug/public-statistics/public

Regards,
Amreesh

On AIRRS, you could see the clear removal of prefixes:




> On 19 Jan 2021, at 13:14, Dr P Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:

>

>

> It appears that the recent Internet shutdown in Uganda may have provided a great

> opportunity to measure Internet Resilience in Africa even if this would have been around a

> "black hole".

>

> Did anyone attempt to make any such measurements ?

>

> For example, how did the Uganda ccTLD .ug fare during the shutdowm?

>

> Did .ug go down during shutdown?

>

> What did connectivity look like to those neighbouring Uganda network wise ?

>

> Would be great to hear some answers or experience in a technical manner, just curious.

>

> Regards,

>

> Paulos

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