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Interesting.<br>
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I have no luck getting the AfriNIC website.<br>
reachability is ok. server connects. and then nothing.<br>
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<tt>[frank@fisi ~]$ wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://afrinic.net/">https://afrinic.net/</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>--2019-02-05 10:06:05-- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://afrinic.net/">https://afrinic.net/</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Resolving afrinic.net... 2001:42d0:0:200::6, 196.216.2.6</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Connecting to afrinic.net|2001:42d0:0:200::6|:443...
connected.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 502 Bad Gateway</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>2019-02-05 10:12:59 ERROR 502: Bad Gateway.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>[frank@fisi ~]$ wget -4 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://afrinic.net/">https://afrinic.net/</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>--2019-02-05 10:13:53-- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://afrinic.net/">https://afrinic.net/</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Resolving afrinic.net... 196.216.2.6</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Connecting to afrinic.net|196.216.2.6|:443... connected.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 502 Bad Gateway</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>2019-02-05 10:19:04 ERROR 502: Bad Gateway.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>[frank@fisi ~]$ </tt><br>
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times are in EAT (UTC+3)<br>
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Confirmed with only one other source network.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Frank<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/02/2019 09:53, Andrew Alston
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi AfriNIC Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am deliberately posting this to the
community mailing list – since this issue affects *<b>everyone</b>*
and is not a isolated issue that I will send via a normal
ticket (though I have copied in AfriNIC support as well)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I noticed this morning that AFRINIC whois
servers are not responding – and we are getting timeouts to
these servers. My first thought was that this may be some
kinda issue from our side (routing or something), but have
since verified this with 4 other unrelated providers – all
seeing the same issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now – I understand maintenance – and I
understand outages – however – whois servers are actually a
pretty critical piece of infrastructure – so I have three
questions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">When will
this be fixed<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Why was this
community not informed of an outage to these servers the
moment it happened<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">What are the
redundancies in place for these servers considering that
amongst other things – the route object database is accessed
via this mechanism – which makes this critical to generation
of filters and other such things – and I notice that both
servers sit on a single subnet – that almost certainly sits
in the same geographic location.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Considering
that this community puts enough emphasis on whois data to
restrict RDNS to subnets that are not assigned (and hence in
whois) – it is incumbent on AFRINIC to keep these servers
functional!<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to prompt answers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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