[92399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Tue Sep 19 04:00:48 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:59:08 -0500
From: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <450F9EB6.80704@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite? There has
to be a remaining uplink (albeit low-capacity) if nameservers within the
country are still accessible.
-brandon
On 9/19/06, Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de> wrote:
>
>
> Gadi Evron wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Intelsat has shutdown the primary satellite link for Zimbabwe's state
> >>communications company for non-payment, which has affected most of the
> >>ISPs in the country.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I can't really blame them. I doubt the Internet is considered critical
> > infrastructure over there yet, and I doubt Intelsat would care... but
> this
> > is interesting in the sense that even if you can't fault intelsat in any
> > way... Intelsat, Inmarsat, etc. run quite a bit, and if it's a
> > "country" that gets disconnected, that is a problem even if it's not
> > "their" problem.
> >
> > Gadi.
>
> http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/countryreports/zwe_e.htm
>
> http://www.comone.co.zw/
> http://www.telone.co.zw
>
> % Information related to '194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255'
>
> inetnum: 194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255
> netname: TelOne-BLK01
> descr: TelOne (formerly ZPTC)
> country: ZW
>
> The nameservers and internet sites can be seen here (europe)
> but they are slow.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Peter and Karin
>
> --
> Peter and Karin Dambier
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>
>
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AIM: brandong00
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--thelost"
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Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite? There has to be a remaining uplink (albeit low-capacity) if nameservers within the country are still accessible.<br><br>-brandon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Dambier</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@peter-dambier.de">peter@peter-dambier.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Gadi Evron wrote:<br>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:<br>><br>>><br>>>Intelsat has shutdown the primary satellite link for Zimbabwe's state<br>>>communications company for non-payment, which has affected most of the
<br>>>ISPs in the country.<br>>><br>><br>><br>> I can't really blame them. I doubt the Internet is considered critical<br>> infrastructure over there yet, and I doubt Intelsat would care... but this
<br>> is interesting in the sense that even if you can't fault intelsat in any<br>> way... Intelsat, Inmarsat, etc. run quite a bit, and if it's a<br>> "country" that gets disconnected, that is a problem even if it's not
<br>> "their" problem.<br>><br>> Gadi.<br><br><a href="http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/countryreports/zwe_e.htm">http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/countryreports/zwe_e.htm</a><br><br><a href="http://www.comone.co.zw/">
http://www.comone.co.zw/</a><br><a href="http://www.telone.co.zw">http://www.telone.co.zw</a><br><br>% Information related to '<a href="http://194.133.122.0">194.133.122.0</a> - <a href="http://194.133.122.255">194.133.122.255
</a>'<br><br>inetnum: <a href="http://194.133.122.0">194.133.122.0</a> - <a href="http://194.133.122.255">194.133.122.255</a><br>netname: TelOne-BLK01<br>descr: TelOne (formerly ZPTC)<br>country: ZW
<br><br>The nameservers and internet sites can be seen here (europe)<br>but they are slow.<br><br><br>Kind regards<br>Peter and Karin<br><br>--<br>Peter and Karin Dambier<br>Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana<br>Graeffstrasse 14
<br>D-64646 Heppenheim<br>+49(6252)671-788 (Telekom)<br>+49(179)108-3978 (O2 Genion)<br>+49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: <a href="http://sipgate.de">sipgate.de</a>)<br>mail: <a href="mailto:peter@peter-dambier.de">peter@peter-dambier.de
</a><br>mail: <a href="mailto:peter@echnaton.serveftp.com">peter@echnaton.serveftp.com</a><br><a href="http://iason.site.voila.fr/">http://iason.site.voila.fr/</a><br><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/
</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Brandon Galbraith<br>Email: <a href="mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com">brandon.galbraith@gmail.com</a><br>AIM: brandong00<br>Voice: 630.400.6992<br>"A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. Yarrrr. --thelost"
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