An update: there *do* appear to be issues with Telkom SA (AS 37457) being
able to reach Wikimedia; I've reached out to their network operations
center.
Despite more investigation I did not find evidence of issues at other
African ISPs.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> That is plausible, I am in Cape Town
> P
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Seddon
> Sent: 29 June 2020 16:40
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia servers
>
> From reports I am seeing on facebook it seems this problem is localised on
> our Africa based users?
>
> Regards
> Seddon
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:05 PM Peter Southwood <
> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > I get this:
> >
> > The connection has timed out
> >
> > The server at en.wikipedia.org is taking too long to respond.
> >
> > The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a
> > few moments.
> > If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
> > connection.
> > If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make
> > sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
> >
> > After a long wait. Been like this for several hours now.
> > Most sites no problem
> > Cheers,
> > P
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of Amir Sarabadani
> > Sent: 29 June 2020 15:31
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia servers
> >
> > Hey,
> > Can you elaborate more? I can access the website and graphs seems okay:
> >
> >
> https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/RIA1lzDZk/application-servers-red-dashboard?orgId=1&from=now-3h&to=now
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM Peter Southwood <
> > peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone else unable to get through to the Wikimedia servers?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
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