MTN has said\u00a0that as far as it is aware,\u00a0there was no failure or outage in its\u00a0Gallo Manor data centre over the weekend.<\/p>\n
This comes after some of the network operator’s\u00a0clients reported that virtual private servers, and various domain name (DNS) and content delivery network (CDN) services appeared to be down.<\/p>\n
With numerous services not seeming to respond, clients reported that it seemed\u00a0like MTN’s\u00a0Gallo Manor data centre was\u00a0offline.<\/p>\n
ADSL subscribers on Afrihost reported being unable to browse certain international sites, with reports linking this to a DNS and CDN outage on MTN.<\/p>\n
However, Afrihost has said that after running extensive tests\u00a0to look for any possible issues, it found that everything in its Gallo Manor environment to be working as expected.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re also not showing any unusual traffic, so we\u2019re confident there is no issue,” Afrihost said.<\/p>\n
“Our DNS is not linked to MTN’s, as we now run on a completely discreet network. While we did have some problems with DNS \u2013 as listed on our network status page \u2013 this is not linked to MTN to the best of our knowledge.”<\/p>\n
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