Re: Internet routing in South Africa

["Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>]

I am having the same problem with mtnsms here in Mozambique.

Cheers,



> 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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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
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Maputo - Mozambique
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