<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><div>[wash@gw ~]$ <b>ping <a href="http://voterstatus.iebc.or.ke">voterstatus.iebc.or.ke</a></b></div><div>PING <a href="http://voterstatus.iebc.or.ke">voterstatus.iebc.or.ke</a> (104.199.107.165): 56 data bytes</div><div>64 bytes from <a href="http://104.199.107.165">104.199.107.165</a>: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=138.073 ms</div><div>^C</div><div>--- <a href="http://voterstatus.iebc.or.ke">voterstatus.iebc.or.ke</a> ping statistics ---</div><div>1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss</div><div>round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 138.073/138.073/138.073/0.000 ms</div><div>[wash@gw ~]$ <b>dig -x 104.199.107.165</b></div><div><br></div><div>; <<>> DiG 9.9.9-P4 <<>> -x 104.199.107.165</div><div>;; global options: +cmd</div><div>;; Got answer:</div><div>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37880</div><div>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 9</div><div><br></div><div>;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:</div><div>; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096</div><div>;; QUESTION SECTION:</div><div>;165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR</div><div><br></div><div>;; ANSWER SECTION:</div><div>165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa. 120 IN PTR <a href="http://165.107.199.104.bc.googleusercontent.com">165.107.199.104.bc.googleusercontent.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:</div><div>199.104.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS <a href="http://ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com</a>.</div><div>199.104.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS <a href="http://ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com</a>.</div><div>199.104.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS <a href="http://ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com</a>.</div><div>199.104.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS <a href="http://ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN A 216.239.32.102</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN A 216.239.34.102</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN A 216.239.36.102</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN A 216.239.38.102</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::66</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::66</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::66</div><div><a href="http://ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com">ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com</a>. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::66</div><div><br></div><div>;; Query time: 451 msec</div><div>;; SERVER: 192.168.55.254#53(192.168.55.254)</div><div>;; WHEN: Sun Aug 06 16:05:24 EAT 2017</div><div>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 417</div><div><br></div><div>[wash@gw ~]$</div><div>[wash@gw ~]$<b> ping <a href="http://www.iebc.or.ke">www.iebc.or.ke</a></b></div><div>PING <u><a href="http://iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com">iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com</a></u> (34.250.71.110): 56 data bytes</div><div>^C</div><div>--- <a href="http://iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com">iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com</a> ping statistics ---</div><div>4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss</div></div><div><br></div><div>If anyone did not already download what they wanted from <a href="http://WWW.iebc.or.ke">WWW.iebc.or.ke</a>, the owners have decided to prevent that by deliberately shutting down the Amazon instance!</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 August 2017 at 13:21, awatila--- via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">insufficient capacity planning?</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 6, 2017 11:52 AM, John Kieti via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_5812242499543221069quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Listers,<div><br></div><div>Been checking the IEBC website since Friday morning - Observing persistent outage of the main section <a href="http://www.iebc.or.ke" target="_blank">www.iebc.or.ke</a> (voter status section still reliably accessible <a href="http://voterstatus.iebc.or.ke" target="_blank">voterstatus.iebc.or.ke</a>). Not very good timing for service outages. Been hopeful the main site will be back sooner. </div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#999999"><br>John Kieti<br>Phone: +254-735-764242 // +254-722-764242<br>Twitter: @johnKieti // Skype: jkieti</font><font color="#999999"><cite><b></b></cite></font><font color="#999999"><cite><b><br></b></cite>Blog:</font><font color="#999999"> </font><a href="http://www.gmeltdown.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">gmeltdown.com</font></a><font color="#336666"> // </font><font color="#999999">LinkedIn: </font><a href="https://ke.linkedin.com/in/kieti" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap">https://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/</span><b style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap">kieti</b></font></a></div><div><div><font color="#999999"><br>The ordinary just won't do</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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