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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
Le 18/09/2012 16:57, Mark Elkins a écrit :<br>
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<pre wrap="">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). </pre>
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Is this confirmed?<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.)</pre>
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You are at the heart of the problem: new primary servers, AfriNIC +
Afnic secondary servers, but the final step was to update the IANA
database with information on these new servers. That final step was
badly done and resulted in this situation.<br>
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Regards<br>
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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:
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<pre wrap="">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 :
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<pre wrap="">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
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.registrar.mw">http://www.registrar.mw</a>
On 18 Sep 2012 at 9:21, Adamou Nacer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Nigel,
Le 17/09/2012 17:03, Nigel Roberts a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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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