Iran's Blocking their Backbone, WWW

Iran's Blocking their Backbone,

WWW

Iran acted right after the election, almost like they knew ahead of
time they would have to filter the WWW.

They cut out going traffic to zero, and slowly applied filters and
brought it back up.

The speed and depth of the operation indicates it was expected
they would need to shut off parts of the WEB. G

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In normal times, DCI carries roughly 5 Gbps of traffic (with a reported capacity of 12 Gbps) through 6 upstream regional and global Internet providers. For the region, this represents an average level of Internet infrastructure (for purposes of perspective, a mid size ISP in Michigan carries roughly the same level of traffic).

Unlike Burma, Iran has significant commercial and technological relationships with the rest of the world. In other words, the government cannot turn off the Internet without impacting business and perhaps generating further social unrest. In all, this represents a delicate balance for the Iranian government and a test case for the Internet to impact democratic change.

...that Iran cut all communication after the election and then slowly added back Internet connectivity over the course of several days). Like many other news reports and bloggers, we also speculated on Iran’s intent — how was the government manipulating Internet traffic and why?

Thanks to the cooperation of several ISPs in the region and Internet Observatory data, we can now do a bit better than speculate — we have pieced together a rough picture of what the Iranian government’s Internet firewall appears to be doing. The data shows that DCI, the Iranian state run telecommunications agency, has selectively blocked or rate-limited targeted Internet applications (either by payload inspection or ports).

The next graph on Iranian applications filters shows email into and out of the country. Again note the run up in email traffic immediately preceding the election (especially outbound mails). And then? The data suggests DCI began blocking some outgoing email even before the election completed. Following the election, email returned at reduced levels (again, presumably because DCI had filtering infrastructure in place)

Finally, a look at the top applications now blocked by the DCI firewall(s). The chart shows average percentage decrease in application traffic in the days before and after the election. As discussed earlier, the Iranian firewalls appear to be selectively impacting application traffic. I’ll note that ssh (a secure communication protocol) tops the list followed by video streaming and file sharing.

SOURCES: 1 AND 2

Games are not blocked. G

Thats how they are doing it, and provides a look

at couple of key targets.

A dos attack in the range of 11 to 14 Gpbs

should back up and shut down the Iranian

Internet. All of it, Government too.

But thats up the the "PersiaN Mujahideen"..

Effects of bring down Iranain Internet

Gerald

Update:

3 Iran government websites run mail servers with web interfaces

( Unconfirmed: )

webmail.bso.ir - Basij, runs Horde
mail.police.ir - Police(Obviously), squirrelmail on what appears to be a BSD box
mail.moi.ir - Ministry of Interior Exchange 6, Windows 2003

Curent Iran backbone load

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More:

Chinese internet shut down by simple DDoS attack

Well, a large portion of it anyway. A DDoS attack on one domain server created a cascade reaction that left five provinces struggling to get online:

This is what happened during the DNSPod incident, however, it triggered a chain of unexpected events, which led to network congestions for the carrier networks. DNSPod’s servers happen to be used by Baofeng, a highly popular Chinese video streaming service. Once the millions Baofeng users fired up their desktop application, all the requests bounced off on the ISP servers, which did not know how to process them.

The intense traffic on the high-level servers caused bottlenecks, slowing everyone’s Internet connection down to a crawl. In addition to the users in the five aforementioned provinces, who were severely affected, customers in Henan, Anhui and Gansu have also reportedly experienced problems.

SOURCE:
http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/ ( temp down )

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