I think it's deliberately shutdown to deny citizens some information. The website is hosted on Amazon (based on the DNS information) and I think the reason for this is for the resilience of Amazon hosting.

[wash@gw ~]$ ping voterstatus.iebc.or.ke
PING voterstatus.iebc.or.ke (104.199.107.165): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 104.199.107.165: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=138.073 ms
^C
--- voterstatus.iebc.or.ke ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 138.073/138.073/138.073/0.000 ms
[wash@gw ~]$ dig -x 104.199.107.165

; <<>> DiG 9.9.9-P4 <<>> -x 104.199.107.165
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37880
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 9

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
165.107.199.104.in-addr.arpa. 120 IN    PTR     165.107.199.104.bc.googleusercontent.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS      ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS      ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS      ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com.
199.104.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS      ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.32.102
ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.34.102
ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.36.102
ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com. 345600 IN A   216.239.38.102
ns-gce-public1.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::66
ns-gce-public2.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::66
ns-gce-public3.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::66
ns-gce-public4.googledomains.com. 345600 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::66

;; Query time: 451 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.55.254#53(192.168.55.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 06 16:05:24 EAT 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 417

[wash@gw ~]$
[wash@gw ~]$ ping www.iebc.or.ke
PING iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com (34.250.71.110): 56 data bytes
^C
--- iebc-prod-lb-1440964940.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

If anyone did not already download what they wanted from WWW.iebc.or.ke, the owners have decided to prevent that by deliberately shutting down the Amazon instance!


On 6 August 2017 at 13:21, awatila--- via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
insufficient capacity planning?

On Aug 6, 2017 11:52 AM, John Kieti via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi Listers,

Been checking the IEBC website since Friday morning - Observing persistent outage of the main section www.iebc.or.ke (voter status section still reliably accessible voterstatus.iebc.or.ke). Not very good timing for service outages. Been hopeful the main site will be back sooner. 

Anyways am looking for the list of 11,155 polling stations without network coverage as per the attached summary. Supposedly it is on the website. Anyone with the itemised list?

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