[AfrICANN-discuss] Management of African ccTLDs: Panne du .td?

[Mark Elkins]

I thought that official technical contacts could more or less update the
IANA database in real-time (which is the impression I got from a Kim
Davies presentation a few years ago). If AfriNIC was running a secondary
on their AnyCast system - this should have stopped the zone disappearing
- but I see even now just the two nameservers (bow.rain.fr. and
bow.intnet.td.)

Is any other African country in a similarly precarious state? Are you
aware that AfriNIC can host a Secondary Anycast nameserver instance for
you?

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 15:16 +0100, Adamou Nacer wrote:
> Hi Dr Paulos,
> I have spend the whole morning discussing about this issue with the 
> telecommunication regulator's representatives and the manager of the 
> primary nameservers at sotel (national telco).
> So what happens is simple.
> - Sotel was in contract with France Telecom which provided the IP 
> addresses they were using for the .td primary servers.
> - That contract was suddenly stopped and then, France Telecom got back 
> its addresses.
> - In the meantime, the guys managing the .td nameservers installed new 
> nameservers (with Sotel's owned IP addresses from AfriNIC) and were 
> supported by AfriNIC and Afnic which host secondary servers.The IANA's 
> database update process was started but is not completed till now. So 
> the sudden withdrawal of France Telecom's IP addresses combined with the 
> ongoing database update operation resulted in this situation.
> As a summary, the main reason of this is lack of planning.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Le 18/09/2012 11:23, Dr Paulos Nyirenda a écrit :
> > We got a report of this issue at .td at the AFTLD Annual Meeting in Livingstone, Zambia
> > in July 2012 and many of us have attempted to get in touch with .td without much success.
> >
> > What may also be noted is that it seems that there have been not complaints or reports
> > from within Chad. It hence seems necessary to ask whether this is a problem for the
> > Internet community within Chad. Are there "significantly interested parties" in this
> > issue within Chad?
> >
> > We have also tried to contact those that seem to have been running the secondary DNS
> > services, not much luck there either - no one replies to the addresses in the SOA, even
> > from servers on .fr - so why were they chosen to run secondary DNS services?
> >
> > The FOIWG of the ccNSO is discussing what may be interpretted as "substantial
> > misbehaviour" of a ccTLD manager and the conditions that must exist for them to be
> > interpretted as adequate for IANA intervention as stipulated in RFC1591. Are we there yet
> > for this case?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paulos
> > ======================
> > Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> > NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> > http://www.registrar.mw
> >
> >
> > On 18 Sep 2012 at 9:21, Adamou Nacer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Nigel,
> >> Le 17/09/2012 17:03, Nigel Roberts a écrit :
> >>> I don't want to make this sound like a commercial (and there are
> >>> others - also inside Africa - who no doubt can offer to assist as
> >>> well) but just to mention we may be able to help any African ccTLDs
> >>> who maybe need additional resources -- from a simple secondary
> >>> nameserver right through to a complete backend registry.
> >>>
> >>> Happy to be contacted at any time. Off list, probably, best.
> >> In fact the problem is not only technical. I think they have support
> >> from afnic. But you see, that isn't enough. I called a friend of mine
> >> close to that file and he promised to introduce me to SOTEL and OTRT. I
> >> will come back with more information on that issue as soon as possible.
> >>
> >> Also, is this mailing list the right place to get assistance on this
> >> kind of issue?
> >> Regards
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