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

Sun Aug 6 16:29:37 EAT 2017

Muraya,

Does it point to Google from your end?

But what would be the motivation to move it now - at this time when people
are eager to lay their hands on the documents?

On 6 August 2017 at 16:21, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems to be hosted on Google now. Or currently being moved to Google
> servers?
>
> SMM
>
> *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>> The ordinary just won't do
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>> Nairobi,KE
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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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