At the start\u00a0of April, several Afrihost Mobile customers complained on the MyBroadband forums that they were unable to reach a number of sites.<\/p>\n
These included Reddit, npmjs, Drupal, Jalopnik, Gizmodo, Fastly, and NYTimes.<\/p>\n
Reddit\u2019s apps were also unable to connect.<\/p>\n
Afrihost confirmed on 13 April that\u00a0certain APN users in the Cape region were affected by the issue.<\/p>\n
One user stated that\u00a0their service worked fine inland, but when they travelled to Cape Town they couldn\u2019t access Reddit.<\/p>\n
Another noted that all of the affected sites appeared to use\u00a0Fastly\u2019s delivery network, and that use of a virtual private network service like Tor provided a workaround for the problem.<\/p>\n
Afrihost told MyBroadband that the issue was specific to sites delivered over Fastly.<\/p>\n
“Fastly, a content delivery network used by sites like Reddit, Disqus and others, recently launched a local presence in South Africa,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n
“We discovered that their local point of presence was not accepting our mobile IP addresses in some instances, which made certain content unavailable to those users.”<\/p>\n
Afrihost said its\u00a0network team has been in contact with Fastly to address the issue, and any other issues which may arise in the future.<\/p>\n
“We believe this issue has been resolved,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n
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