Co.za downtime explained

It's down!

I just checked on my 3G connection and got the following:

The connection has timed out
The server at co.za is taking too long to respond.

The Uniforum guys need to seriously pull their socks up, they're providing the closest thing to an essential service and they're flippin mucking about!!
 
Just sent a update ticket for a domain, that seems to be working. Don't know about new registrations. Can someone confirm if new registrations are still working? Hopefully it's just their website that is down and we won't have a repeat of what happend last time.
 
darkfire2010 said:
Just sent a update ticket for a domain, that seems to be working. Don't know about new registrations. Can someone confirm if new registrations are still working? Hopefully it's just their website that is down and we won't have a repeat of what happend last time.
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It's been 2 weeks, we've got South African clients wanting to register new CoZa domains- and we've been unable to do so. 5 support tickets to them with no reply, it's starting to get really ridiculous now; I think I'll have to give them a call personally Monday and find out what's going on. Anyways, the problem we've experienced with them is their system keeps trying to assign us to South African name servers:

NS1-1 NS RECORD1: ns0.is.co.za.
NS1-1 NS RECORD2: ns0.neotel.co.za.
NS1-1 NS RECORD3: ns0.plig.net.
NS1-1 NS RECORD4: ns1.coza.net.za.
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Anyone else having issues registering perhaps?
 
Wow

CritiKill said:
I just checked on my 3G connection and got the following:

The connection has timed out
The server at co.za is taking too long to respond.

The Uniforum guys need to seriously pull their socks up, they're providing the closest thing to an essential service and they're flippin mucking about!!
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It is down. This is amazing, how can such crap go on without someone getting fired?

If my stuff failed like this all the time, i'm pretty friggen sure... I WOULD BE FIRED!

wtf!?:mad:

PS: Just tried a whois and that is borked too
 
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AnRkey said:
It is down. This is amazing, how can such crap go on without someone getting fired?

If my stuff failed like this all the time, i'm pretty friggen sure... I WOULD BE FIRED!

wtf!?:mad:
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We've dropped their tld months ago- our company's support is renown, and we've refused to have our reputation affected by these kind of things. Registering domains should be the least of our worries. But we're going to keep on fighting to get our client's domains over. Will update you guys tomorrow on the status after my call to their office.
 
AeroVPS said:
It's been 2 weeks, we've got South African clients wanting to register new CoZa domains- and we've been unable to do so. 5 support tickets to them with no reply, it's starting to get really ridiculous now; I think I'll have to give them a call personally Monday and find out what's going on. Anyways, the problem we've experienced with them is their system keeps trying to assign us to South African name servers:



Anyone else having issues registering perhaps?
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Strange, I registered one yesterday.
 
bwana said:
Strange, I registered one yesterday.
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Really weird. I've had my engineers check over the PTR records and doing a dig or nslookup on the IPs and name server host names give me the correct response.

Their registration system keeps counting 4 name servers, even though I've specified 2. And then fills in those 4 name servers. Any ideas, could save me some time :)
 
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AeroVPS said:
Really weird. I've had my engineers check over the PTR records and doing a dig or nslookup on the IPs gives me the name servers.

Their registration system keeps counting 4 name servers, even though I've specified 2. And then fills in those 4 name servers. Any ideas, could save me some time :)
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I didn't enter any IP addresses, just the NS.
 
We have been registering new .co.za domain names just fine every day until today. No hiccups over the past 2 weeks.

Yesterday their SSL certificate expired, which I found quite entertaining, because I thought to myself "I hope their systems aren't about to go down again".
 
Website is back, someone at Uniforum probalby checked their email notifcations, an hour ago :)
 
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