For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so…
Posts Tagged ‘offline’
AXXESS / Afrihost / IS / MWeb DSL slow-to-no international browsing
2010
12.02
12.02
Seems like there is an upstream cable fault (being investigated) that has caused international browsing from South Africa outward to fail.
Pings reveal failing terminations on the entry points into continental Europe and the US.
IS has reported it as follows, all others are piggy-backing (or just silent on the matter): (more…)
MTN Business Data lines crash – down again
2010
08.30
08.30
Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline.
There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h22:
SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCED: Intermittent Degradation in Service SEVERITY: Critical (more...)
ZA Registrar for domain registrations back up and running
2010
04.13
04.13
www.co.za is all up and running and back in business again after their issues on April 7, 2010. whois.co.za, co.za Domains and the South African Domain Registry in general is all back in business.
But you know that already 
Well done for all the hard work!
co.za and whois.co.za updates on server recovery
2010
04.09
04.09
They’ve been working hard! Well done!!
| Function | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| CAPTCHA whois | Not affected | http://captcha.coza.net.za |
| Port 43 whois | Not affected | whois://whois.coza.net.za |
| Primary Database | Not affected | |
| Name Servers | Not affected | CO.ZA zone integrity unaffected |
| Incoming and Outgoing email | Not affected | Applications queuing on incoming mail server |
| RT Ticket system | Not affected | |
| Network | Partially affected – Fixed | Redundant link restored |
| Main web site | Affected – Fixed | http://www.coza.net.za |
| Web whois | Affected – Fixed | http://www.coza.net.za/whois.shtml |
| Registration Engine (Updates, New, Deletions) | Proceeeding Normally | Backlog processed – transactions being processed in real time Currently processing queued applications Final data sync, Final testing ETA afternoon of 8th New machine commissioned, OS Installed Restoring historic data |
| Payment Processing | processing backlog | Commencing on the 9th – ETA of backlog completion 11th Processing of Suspension/Deletions suspended until complete |
| Online VISA/Mastercard payments | In progress | ETA 9th Processing of Suspension/Deletions suspended until complete |
Update on .co.za and whois.co.za outages
2010
04.09
04.09
There’s an update on www.coza.net.za on the system outages they’ve experienced:
| CO.ZA Service Outage Status | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 07 Apr 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Original announcement here Current Status of co.za services.
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.co.za and whois.co.za offline
2010
04.08
04.08
[South Africa - Apr 8. 2010] Both www.co.za (South African co.za Domain Registry) and whois.co.za (The .co.za Domain homepage and the co.za Whois Server (Registration Details)) are offline (at least on port 80, for normal web traffic) — here’s hoping it’s just a reboot / upgrade!
Aaaaaaaaaanyway…
whois.co.za. 86400 IN CNAME co.za.
co.za. 86400 IN A 206.223.136.195
and (more…)
Slashdot offline 13:12 SAST
2009
11.15
11.15
Perhaps it’s just routing — perhaps it’s the network — perhaps it’s Telkom’s upgrade for 2010…
But #slashdot.org is offline…
Sigh…
But you knew that already!
Hayibo.com is suffering from 500 Internal Server Errors…
Not a good day on the web…