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

Sun Aug 6 17:15:54 EAT 2017

It seems to be up now!

On 6 August 2017 at 16:29, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>> Phone: +254-735-764242 // +254-722-764242
>>>> Twitter: @johnKieti // Skype:  jkieti
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>>>>
>>>> The ordinary just won't do
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
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>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft."
>

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft."
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