[kictanet] IEBC Website - Polling stations with no GSM Coverage

[Odhiambo Washington]

I think it's deliberately shutdown to deny citizens some information. The
website is hosted on Amazon (based on the DNS information) and I think the
reason for this is for the resilience of Amazon hosting.

[wash at gw ~]$ *ping voterstatus.iebc.or.ke <http://voterstatus.iebc.or.ke>*
PING voterstatus.iebc.or.ke (104.199.107.165): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 104.199.107.165: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=138.073 ms
^C
--- voterstatus.iebc.or.ke ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 138.073/138.073/138.073/0.000 ms
[wash at gw ~]$ *dig -x 104.199.107.165*

; <<>> DiG 9.9.9-P4 <<>> -x 104.199.107.165
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37880
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 9

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa. 120 IN    PTR
165.107.199.104.bc.googleusercontent.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS
ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS
ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS
ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS
ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.32.102
ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.34.102
ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.36.102
ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.38.102
ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::66
ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::66
ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::66
ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::66

;; Query time: 451 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.55.254#53(192.168.55.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 06 16:05:24 EAT 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 417

[wash at gw ~]$
[wash at gw ~]$* ping www.iebc.or.ke <http://www.iebc.or.ke>*
PING *iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
<http://iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com>*
(34.250.71.110): 56 data bytes
^C
--- iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

If anyone did not already download what they wanted from WWW.iebc.or.ke,
the owners have decided to prevent that by deliberately shutting down the
Amazon instance!


On 6 August 2017 at 13:21, awatila--- via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> insufficient capacity planning?
>
> On Aug 6, 2017 11:52 AM, John Kieti via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> Been checking the IEBC website since Friday morning - Observing persistent
> outage of the main section www.iebc.or.ke (voter status section still
> reliably accessible voterstatus.iebc.or.ke). Not very good timing for
> service outages. Been hopeful the main site will be back sooner.
>
> Anyways am looking for the list of 11,155 polling stations without network
> coverage as per the attached summary. Supposedly it is on the website.
> Anyone with the itemised list?
>
> Best regards
>
> --
>
> John Kieti
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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft."
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