Re: Coverage of the .to internet outage

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This piece:

drills down to this piece with slightly more detail:

I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as
well, though not whom it will connect to.

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If you’re a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may seem like a very large ongoing expense.

Ideally it would be possible to keep a backup circuit operating in a very narrow section of kHz during normal times. Along with the contractual ability to significantly expand it on demand, but more capacity on the same satellite/same polarity without physical reconfiguration of the remote end earth station may not always be possible.

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Redundancy seems like it could be covered by increasing the cost of a .to domain.

DNS for .to domains seems to be working just fine, but whois lookups for .to domains fail with a timeout.

-A

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This piece:

drills down to this piece with slightly more detail:

I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as
well, though not whom it will connect to.

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It appears that Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <aaron@heyaaron.com> said:

If you're a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a
working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service
that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may
seem like a very large ongoing expense.

Redundancy seems like it could be covered by increasing the cost of a .to
domain.

I think you vastly overestimate how much money there is in domain registrations
if your name is not Verisign or Godaddy.

DNS for .to domains seems to be working just fine, but whois lookups for
.to domains fail with a timeout.

Well, sure, the DNS has mirrors all over the place:

$ host -t ns to.
to name server frankfurt.tonic.to.
to name server singapore.tonic.to.
to name server colo.tonic.to.
to name server tonic.to.
to name server sydney.tonic.to.
to name server newyork.tonic.to.
to name server helsinki.tonic.to.

Dunno why WHOIS would fail since traceroutes say the WHOIS server is in California.

R's,
John