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...)
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 |
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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