Hi, That is pretty amazing news. I have talked to both MTN and Google people before and never have they explained the issue this way.
Basically, this implies that Google is waiting for something in order to make this DNS change. Is there anything we can do to make that happen? What exactly would we have to ask our ISPs to change so we can use this feature? Or is there another way that we can test this locally? (Like creating a host file with *.youtube.com pointing to 212.88.118.147 ?) Moving this issue forward would greatly help all ugandan internet users. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Tuesday 20 July 2010 08:55:10 Muwonge Ronald wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Reinier Battenberg < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > MTN, as part of its grameen/google project has been running a cache for > > about > > 2 years already and got away with not sharing it with their peers. > > Hi > Firstly this isn't a cache it's part of the google cluster and saying MTN > ain't sharing it isn't right.It's Google to redirect Ugandan requests to > MTN or UTL nodes and it's not yet time for that.However if ISP's want to > test it we can just do that in our DNS's :-) > > > I guess running 2 caches in one country doesnt really make sense to > > google, so > > let's see what happens. > > The more the nodes in a cluster the better (Best design practice) they're > the 2 operators with the best links (assumption :-))) > > > -- > > rgds, > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > > > On Saturday 17 July 2010 15:23:11 Gerald Begumisa wrote: > > > Done from a server using MTN Internet (results are different from > > > another ISP). > > > > > > [be...@node-55 ~]$ ping www.google.com > > > PING www.l.google.com (212.88.118.147) 56(84) bytes of data. > > > 64 bytes from h1693.n2.ips.mtn.co.ug (212.88.118.147): icmp_seq=0 > > > ttl=59 time=20.0 ms > > > 64 bytes from h1693.n2.ips.mtn.co.ug (212.88.118.147): icmp_seq=1 > > > ttl=59 time=19.0 ms > > > > > > [be...@node-55 ~]$ dig @ns1.google.com. google.com a > > > ... > > > ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > > ... > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > > google.com. 300 IN A 212.88.118.147 > > > > > > > > > [be...@node-55 ~]$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net 212.88.118.147 > > > ... > > > organisation: ORG-MU2-AFRINIC > > > org-name: MTN Uganda > > > org-type: LIR > > > country: UG > > > > > > > > > Interesting... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
