Comments on: WordPress.com blocked in Kenya?

By: Rafiki

Rafiki — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:53:17 +0000

Wordpress was blocked from Kenyan access for 4 days.

Its up now

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By: Sugarspyce

Sugarspyce — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:07:35 +0000

Maitha is right, it was a problem earlier but its now resolved. Am in Kenya and logging in through AfricaOnline and at the moment there are no problems

By: mshairi

mshairi — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:46:33 +0000

Hmmm. Kenyan Analyst had queried this very same thing last night as he was unable to access his WordPress blogs. You are not alone, KA!

@maitha. LOL re: the alter egos!

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Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:00:49 +0000

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By: maitha

maitha — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:18:09 +0000

nimerudi . it was not a bgp issue , seems like africaonline had made some errors with some entries and all requests to the wp site within KIXP were being directed to their ip 195.202.74.130
Pinging wordpress.com [72.232.101.41] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 195.202.74.130: Destination host unreachable.
this has been resolved and the site is now reachable
Reply from 72.232.101.41: bytes=32 time=707ms TTL=42.