Re: cable cut, sat-3 maybe? in early 2000s
Edwin Thompson <Edwin.Thompson-twoMPDFt7rQGFrCMPLEOK/d9D2ou9A/[email protected]>
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Joe I have been in the Internet industry in SA since the mid 1990's and do not recall such an event. Cable failure yes, however most players back then were using satellite capacity due to the high cost of cable or a hybrid of the two. I do not recall a total isolation. Sent from my iPad Regards Edwin Thompson On 10 May 2012, at 6:46 PM, "Joe Abley" <jabley-33MQ7pdPq3gsA/[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to recall that in the early 2000s there was a multi-day failure in an under-sea cable that disrupted international internet access for South Africa, at least for customers of some ISPs. This was before I installed F-Root in Johannesburg, I think in 2004. The story went that the outage was sufficiently long that the delegation for the ZA zone expired naturally from caches which led South African users unable to reach local content using ZA domain names. > > I've heard this event referred to a number of times by way of explaining to people why having a local root server is a good idea -- it helps preserve access to local content in the event of an international network failure. > > Michuki (here in the Gambia at the AfNOG meeting) remembered a similar story, and he thought it was a failure in SAT-3. SAT-3 was only available from about 2001 (says Wikipedia), which would place the outage somewhere between 2001 and 2004. If indeed it was SAT-3, and if indeed any of this story is actually real. Perhaps Michuki heard it from me, and perhaps it came to me in a dream. > > I was about to type this as a footnote into a document I've been asked to write, but realised that I have no details about the outage, and suddenly a lack of confidence that I've remembered it properly at all. Perhaps it's all lies! > > Anybody recall such an event? Or was this all just an elaborate hallucination? > > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > IOZ mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz