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

Sun Aug 6 21:10:51 EAT 2017

Thanks for the update.

On Aug 6, 2017 6:09 PM, "S.M. Muraya via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Site seems accessible *only* via: https://www.iebc.or.ke/  not via - http
>
>
> https://www. -  encrypted data transmission
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>
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> 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
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> The ordinary just won't do
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>>>>> Nairobi,KE
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>>>>> "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."
>>
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>
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> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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