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

"Mike Lawrie" <[email protected]>
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> Joe Abley wrote:
...[snip]...
 from about 2001 (says Wikipedia), which would place the outage 
somewhere
 between 2001 and 2004.

Calvin Browne wrote:-
...[snip]...
> Another possible source might have been Mike Lawrie re-configuring the 
> primary for .za to be out of country in light of the threatened ECT 
> bill,
...[snip]...

The move of the primary .za zonefile to be offshore did not cause any 
disruption to the .za nameservice. All of the sysops of the 
secondaries were kind enough to cooperate fully and efficiently.

I have no recollection of the failure of .za nameservers that Joe 
describes -- not even arising from 9/11. AFAIK, South African ISPs 
had backup circuits via satellite to cater for disruptions to the 
SAT3 service, and there were such disruptions and the satellite links 
did kick in. They gave a choked service, both in capacity and in 
inherent response times. But failures of the .za domain, no.

Mike
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