[kictanet] Government Websites down - again?

[S.M. Muraya]

Walu,

Happy New Year :)

Sounds like January financial afflictions are with many of us :)

Can someone explain why "TEAMS" would affect local loop networks?

Surely "Go.Ke" servers must be on local networks even if there are
international backups/instances of Go.KE PUBLIC Content.

(:
On Jan 7, 2013 1:01 PM, "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sorry @Paul  K,  @Ndemo and @Kate Gitau to pick on you early in the year,
> but it looks like I cannot reach most of the government site (
> www.xxx.go.ke)
>
> I quick ping to the following fails:
> http://www.ict.go.ke/  (ICT Board site down)
>
> or
> http://www.information.go.ke/ (Ministry of Info and communication site
> down).
>
> Rumour has it that it has something to do with the TEAMs cable undergoing
> scheduled maintenance. Pliz ?!!??...
>
> But thank heavens our Money minting machine below has somehow managed to
> stay up :-)
>
> http://www.kra.go.ke/  (Kenya Revenue up)
>
> even though its parent ministry is down :-(
>
> http://www.treasury.go.ke/  (Ministry of FInance down)
>
> Ok, could someone remind me why we are the best ICT destination in East
> Africa and the future mother of Silicon Savannah/Konza CIty when we cannot
> design redundancy within our government networks?
>
> We have guys on this list who can design redundancy for free - me
> included. But since it is election time, why cant my good friend Dr. Ndemo
> just put up an international tender for this work :-)  and then I can apply
> from  which Island was it again? -Cayman Island or something?
>
> walu.
>
>
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