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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Last month's cable breaks were in Yemeni waters, not near Jeddah as was initially reported.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) @ioda.live · 8d

IODA collaborated with @filter.watch and ASL19 to co-author a report on the 2025 shutdown of the Internet in Iran during the war with Israel. Key contributors included @radar.cloudflare.com @eldomador.bsky.social @ooni.org and more!

Access the report here: filter.watch/english/2025...

Iran’s ‘Stealth Blackout’: A Multi-stakeholder Analysis of the June 2025 Internet Shutdown - Filterwatch

Authors: Miaan Group, ASL19, IODA Contributors: Kentik, Cloudflare, OONI, Tor, Lantern, eQualitie, Psiphon Executive Summary The June 2025 Internet shutdown in Iran, carried out during the war with Is...

filter.watch

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for the comment. I'll re-word this section.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 8d

What is your definition of these terms?

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 8d

Rejected puns included:

Another Dozen Rises
Roll With It: Baker’s Dozen Returns
You Knead This Dozen Back
Glaze of Glory
Crumbs of AS Ranking
Powdered Past, Iced Insights
Bready or Not, Here It Comes Again
Flour to the People: Dozen Is Back

and of course...

Bun Intended: The Dozen Returns

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 8d

Rejected puns included:

Another Dozen Rises
Roll With It: Baker’s Dozen Returns
You Knead This Dozen Back
Glaze of Glory
Crumbs of AS Ranking
Powdered Past, Iced Insights
Bready or Not, Here It Comes Again
Flour to the People: Dozen Is Back

and of course...

Bun Intended: The Dozen Returns

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz.

www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...

A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective

Loaf and behold, this retrospective covers nearly 20 years of the Baker’s Dozen style annual ranking of the biggest ASes of the internet. In it we discuss the DFZ, de-peerings, and partitions. It was ...

www.kentik.com

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

Be sure to check out the viz! 😁

Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

Additionally, I discuss the DFZ, de-peering and partitions before delving into a sample breakdown of traffic volume for a typical mid-sized US provider by connectivity type: transit vs peering vs embedded cache vs IXP. Interesting stuff!

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz.

www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...

A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective

Loaf and behold, this retrospective covers nearly 20 years of the Baker’s Dozen style annual ranking of the biggest ASes of the internet. In it we discuss the DFZ, de-peerings, and partitions. It was ...

www.kentik.com

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

Good question. Will need to investigate.

Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 9d

Internet service returning to #Afghanistan following Taliban-directed internet shutdown to "prevent immorality" beginning at 11:50 UTC.

The shutdown, a first for the country, lasted almost two full days.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10d

Taliban Imposes Internet Blackout Amid Morality Crackdown
https://theonion.com/taliban-imposes-internet-blackout-amid-morality-crackdown/

“Eh, good call. I mainly use it for immoral stuff.”

Werner McIntosh, Caricature Archivist

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Kentik @kentik.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday, the internet in Afghanistan went dark.

The Taliban ordered the country's first-ever nationwide shutdown, a devastating blow to its growing digital economy and a profound assault on human rights.

Our full analysis from @eldomador.bsky.social:

www.kentik.com/blog/afghani...

Afghanistan Downs Internet to “Prevent Immorality”

Afghanistan has imposed its first nationwide internet shutdown, cutting off connectivity to “prevent immorality” — a blow to digital freedoms, education, and media already under severe strain since th...

www.kentik.com

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 10d

Internet shutdown in northeastern Pakistan to quell protests captured by @ioda.live:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/region/3083?...
x.com/pakistanwall...

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Pierre Beyssac @pierreb.bsky.social · 10d

Les Taliban bloquent Internet pour 1 journée complète et envisagent de revenir à la 2G pour "éviter l'immoralité". Ça me rappelle une histoire, bien française elle, de "3 Go par mois", et de l'obsession de blocage du porno.

Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 10d

Internet down for a second day in Afghanistan as country's first-ever internet blackout continues.

Directive from Taliban govt is to revert to 2G-only service as a way to "prevent immorality."

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 10d

Internet down for a second day in Afghanistan as country's first-ever internet blackout continues.

Directive from Taliban govt is to revert to 2G-only service as a way to "prevent immorality."

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11d

bsky.app/profile/ioda...

IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) @ioda.live · 11d

Today's Internet shutdown in Afghanistan is an extension of recent government-directed shutdowns of fiber optic Internet, localized to specific provinces and motivated by a morality crackdown. Read more in our blog post:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/tali...

Taliban Expands Moral Crackdown In Afghanistan From Localized Internet Shutdowns to Nationwide Shutdown

As of September 29, 2025, at 12:30 a.m., IODA data shows a complete Internet shutdown across the entire country of Afghanistan. BGP signals and Active Probing both dropped simultaneously and significa...

ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu

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IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) @ioda.live · 11d

Today's Internet shutdown in Afghanistan is an extension of recent government-directed shutdowns of fiber optic Internet, localized to specific provinces and motivated by a morality crackdown. Read more in our blog post:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/tali...

Taliban Expands Moral Crackdown In Afghanistan From Localized Internet Shutdowns to Nationwide Shutdown

As of September 29, 2025, at 12:30 a.m., IODA data shows a complete Internet shutdown across the entire country of Afghanistan. BGP signals and Active Probing both dropped simultaneously and significa...

ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11d

The ongoing internet shutdown in Afghanistan is the outcome of what many feared when the Taliban took over in August 2021.

As of August 2024, we hadn't seen much change with respect to internet service in the country, as I detailed in this blog post:
www.kentik.com/blog/afghani...

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IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) @ioda.live · 11d

The country-wide, government-ordered shutdown in Afghanistan is visible in IODA. Starting at 5:00 PM local time, the shutdown is ongoing.

Follow connectivity in Afghanistan in near realtime:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/AF?f...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11d

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan is an extension of ban on fiber optic services that was implemented in more remote parts of the country earlier this month.

apnews.com/article/afgh...

Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'

The Taliban leader has banned fibre optic internet in Afghanistan's Balkh province to “prevent immorality,” according to a spokesman for the administration.

apnews.com

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11d

Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local).

Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to “prevent immorality.” This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 25d

Another perspective:
bsky.app/profile/rada...

Cloudflare Radar @radar.cloudflare.com · 25d

Multiple reports of a brief #Starlink outage earlier this morning corroborated by a significant drop in HTTP requests between 04:00-05:00 UTC.

Large burst of #BGP announcements seen at that time as well. Announced IP address space also saw some shifts.

radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as14...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 25d

Beginning at 04:27 UTC today (Sep-15), Starlink suffered a brief but global service outage. This is most widespread service outage since Jul-24 when Starlink was down for more than two hours.

Nearly all AS14593's BGP routes were briefly withdrawn at the time of the incident.

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