Hearing Syria internet cut

[thepacketmaster at hotmail.com (James Smith )]

I'm curious to know what method people use to monitor the changes in the BGP system?  Any recommendations?

-----Original Message-----
From: Andree Toonk <andree+nanog at toonk.nl>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:21:21 
To: <gbonser at seven.com>
Cc: <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Hearing Syria internet cut


.-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 12-07-19 10:00 PM? George
Bonser wrote:
> Can anyone confirm? 

Yes confirmed, about 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP
tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19).

Cheers,
?Andree