Re: cable cut, sat-3 maybe? in early 2000s

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:40 +0000, Joe Abley 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.

A week after 9/11 - the Diesel ran out in the USA where a number of
people had their primary international circuits terminated. That caused
a few problems.
There were no root servers at the time in Johannesburg.
Local instances of Root Servers are a very good thing to have access to.

En-route to The Gambia AfNOG/AfriNIC - currently in Dakar.
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