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  • Google services now hosting in South Africa and whois.co.za

    Google.co.za is doing it, Gmail is doing it — resolving to 196.23.168.147 – hosted by Internet Solutions, and reverse-IP’ing to za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com (which suggests the implemenation of local youtube caching (youtube.co.za is in the offing for some time now)) – full rundown here. Youtube.co.za — registered by MarkMonitor on behalf of Google – was last updated on 15 May 2010, so it’s not far away – well, at the moment, it’s just redirecting to http://www.youtube.com/?gl=ZA&hl=en-GB They weren’t that lucky with gmail.co.za though 🙂

    While we’re on domain names – did you know that whois.co.za is no longer functional? You need to browse directly to http://co.za/whois.shtml – I’ll put a little something together for that…

    Just kind of interesting 🙂

  • ZA Registrar for domain registrations back up and running

    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

    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

  • If you’re itching for those GNU apps from Linux on Windows…

    You’re stuck on a Windows box. But you don’t want to install MinGW32? Can’t dual-boot to run Ubuntu or Debian on your Windows machine for some for that GNU happiness that sed, groff, wget, whois and all those happy apps bring with it? (more…)

  • Update on .co.za and whois.co.za outages

    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.

    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

    Currently processing queued applications

    Final data sync, Final testing ETA afternoon of 8th

    New machine commissioned, OS Installed Restoring historic data
    Payment Processing In progress 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

  • .co.za and whois.co.za offline

    [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…)