[afnog] Only country content and Google sites accessible. Why ?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:14:16PM +0100,
 MANGA Willy Ted <mangawilly at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 51 lines which said:

> A friend of mine who is working in an university in Cameroon told me
> that since one month they are note able to reach any sites outside
> Cameroon.

There are many possible reasons and, lacking a RIPE Atlas probe in
that prefix, it will be hard to investigate remotely.

Can your friend run some debugging commands? Such as ping and
traceroute to some Atlas anchors
<https://atlas.ripe.net/about/anchors/list/>? 

The two Atlas probes in Cameroon can all ping the last installed
anchor, ar-bue-as4270.anchors.atlas.ripe.net, in Argentina.

% atlas-reach -r 500 -c CM 170.210.5.200
2 probes reported
Test #3577495 done at 2016-02-25T16:17:33Z
Tests: 6 successful tests (100.0 %), 0 errors (0.0 %), 0 timeouts (0.0 %), average RTT: 431 ms

> Only country content and google sites are reachable.

Google sites are probably hosted in a Google cache in his ISP.