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

Sun Aug 6 18:08:11 EAT 2017

Site seems accessible *only* via: https://www.iebc.or.ke/  not via - http

https://www. -  encrypted data transmission

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>> Blog: gmeltdown.com <http://www.gmeltdown.com> // LinkedIn:
>>>>> https://ke.linkedin.com/in/*kieti* <https://ke.linkedin.com/in/kieti>
>>>>>
>>>>> The ordinary just won't do
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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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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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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."
>

-- 
SMM

*"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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