Re: Internet routing in South Africa

[Brian Longwe <blongwe at psg.com>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:13:47 +0200 (CAT)
Jim Holland <afnog at mango.zw> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, I wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone any information about Internet routing problems in South
> > Africa?  I have found that some mail is taking several days to reach
> > Zimbabwe from there, and that it is impossible to access certain web
> > sites, eg www.is.co.za and www.sn.apc.org.
> 
> I am pleased to report that starting from 15:15 GMT today, the situation
> has suddenly returned to normal as far as MANGO and our upstream service
> provider (Zimbabwe Online) are concerned.  I have since heard second-hand
> reports that something like 20% of South Africa's Internet bandwidth was
> routed via the World Trade Centre, and that the destruction of those
> buildings caused massive connectivity problems.
> 

I have also had problems over the past few days resolving some South Arican sites - the one most of my user have been complaining about is www.mtnsms.com - apparently the MTN servers. I don't know if this is related but it seems to be happenning concurrently.

Longwe

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