hih,

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Reinier Battenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Its been a week that i can not access http://www.gta.gov.zw/
>
> I contacted my ISP and they say its their upstream provider, so they were
> not going to do anyting (?)

so your ISPs upstram is blocking a whole range of addresses?


>
> So, i did, and contacted SEACOM via their website. I did not get a response
> from them too.

 (SEACOM is probably not your upstreams upstream, they just carry L2
traffic for your ISP to their ISP)

>
> What is the normal procedure for this? Its still totally possible that its
> all the http://www.gta.gov.zw/ managers fault, but i would not know if it
> is,

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.gta.gov.zw

and with my ISP and their upstream being not very helpful, where do I go
> (except the competition using TEAMS, which seems to work.)


use Google and click on "cached"?

I'm not seeing any DNS luv for that site:

>dig gta.gov.zw

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> gta.gov.zw
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 269
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gta.gov.zw.                    IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gta.gov.zw.             10800   IN      SOA     ns.gta.gov.zw. webmaster.gta.gov
.zw. 2010072000 28800 14400 360000 86400

;; Query time: 1828 msec
;; SERVER: 196.200.16.2#53(196.200.16.2)
;; WHEN: Sun Jan 09 21:25:02 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77


>ping gta.gov.zw
Ping request could not find host gta.gov.zw. Please check the name and try again
.

>tracert gta.gov.zw
Unable to resolve target system name gta.gov.zw.

Strange.


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McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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