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

Tue Sep 18 22:15:00 SAST 2012

I also recall that ICANN indicated that there was an emergency service for IANA
functions, may be this is one such situation where this could have kicked in. I also
recall that ICANN did put out an emergency 24x7 telephone number for things like this.

Mike, we carried out a study under AFTLD to assess status of African ccTLDs and you can
see the presentation at:
http://www.aftld.org/SA2008/docs/presentations/Day1/ccTLDs-in-Africa-Dr-P-Nyirenda.mw-ccTLD-pub.pdf.

On slide 19 you will see that there are at least 5 African ccTLDs with only 2
nameservers and at least one of those, .gw, had all nameservers on its own network. I
hope this precarious situation has improved since that study was done in 2008.

Regards,

Paulos
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Dr Paulos Nyirenda
Malawi .mw ccTLD
Malawi SDNP Coodinator

On 18 Sep 2012 at 17:57, Mark Elkins wrote:

> 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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