Big gov.za DNS problem - 27 November 2022

[Jan]

Over 30 government websites down — including police and home affairs

At least 34 government-run websites in South Africa were offline in what appeared to be a major outage early on Sunday, 27 November 2022.

Attempting to open one of these websites between 06:00 and 08:00 AM presented a "This site can't be reached" message, accompanied by a "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" error.

 

[McGuywer]

Amandla!

 

[OldCrowEW]

Appararently a SITA upgrade this weekend could be the reason for all of this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1596185983300485121

 

[HumanShield]

This City sent out this release last week about the outage

 

[Jan]

Thanks, updated the article with Tshwane's info.

Pity SITA didn't send out a notice about this to indicate the extent of the impact.

 

[OldCrowEW]

SITA being concerned about end users and sending out notices? What devilry is that?

 

[Utterly Confused]

Maybe they didn't pay their ISP accounts. Just a thought.

 

[r00igev@@r]

I would assume that the government of South Africa ICT has zero disaster recovery plans?
They probably have a tender for that and awarded it to the Gupta's.

 

[RonSwanson]

Lekker SITA.
Lekker Transformation, AA and BEE VIVA!

 

[ubercal]

haiboo surely they would host there domains with a domain hosting provider , or are they hosting it on a WinXP "Server" in the storeroom.

 

[gotaway]

DR / High Availability hosted in same data centre?

 

[now05ster]

haiboo surely they would host there domains with a domain hosting provider , or are they hosting it on a WinXP "Server" in the storeroom.

It's Windows ME. Is wrong with you?

 

[B-1]

I would assume that the government of South Africa ICT has zero disaster recovery plans?
They probably have a tender for that and awarded it to the Gupta's.

DR requires maintenance and regular testing otherwise its of no use. I doubt that's something that government ICT will implement properly.

 

[ubercal]

It's Windows ME. Is wrong with you?

pfff Windows NT

Hasnt been upgraded since the last umlungu left

Maybe the upgrade was from ipx/spx to tcp/ip