Unfortunately I have had so many issues with local DNS servers hosted by ISP's, I simply don't trust them anymore. Too many times have I not been able to reach a site only to find out it was the local DNS server that was acting up. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
note also some ISP's (the stupid ones who shouldnt have clients really) issue DNS servers to clients hosted/routed abroad so while the content server is local, you still get affected.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:16 PM, joel eliakim <joeliakim@gmail.com> wrote:
good stuff. thanks steve for airing that out
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:31 PM, joel eliakim <joeliakim@gmail.com> wrote:
in regards to the above, i had read a very interesting article on this forum about KIXP by a gentleman (cant remember his name)who said he was one of the founders of KICTANET and the KIXP,, and from my relatively layman point of understanding, if we had our local sites routed through KIXP, we wouldnt be having this problem accessing local sites, correct me if im wrong by the way!my question is, would we be experiencing slow speeds when accessing sites for local companies routed through other exchange points outside the country or would it be faster if the sites were routed through KIXP.or rather...would the fibre cut affect local traffic if the KIXP was utilized for the local traffic?
You're not wrong per se, but I'll help you clarify this - a site being "local" may simply mean belongs to a "Kenyan" entity - it could be hosted anywhere in the world. You need to differentiate between "local" in this context, and "locally hosted" which refers to the location of the server the site resides on.
Locally hosted sites, say a web server in KDN's data center, or KRA online services, should not be affected by this outage if the networks they're on are connected to the KIXP, provided the network you (the user) are on is also connected to the KIXP.
and oh...the gentleman you refer to is one Brian Longwe.
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