Mr. Pena’s response to our open letters
March 4, 2005I just got a hold of Mr. Pena’s response to our 2 open letters.
I must say, I’m a bit disappointed that Mr. Pena is now trying to distance himself from his CICT guidelines. Obviously it’s become quite a mess and I guess he doesn’t want to be associated with this mess. My brother JJ does a good job here of explaining how the Guidelines are Mr. Pena’s creation, and that he shouldn’t try to duck responsibility for the Guidelines.
What I instead want to point out is Mar Roxas statement last week about the CICT not being accountable:
I’ll quote:
“What kind of an animal is CICT? It’s not accountable for the e-government fund. So it was a basic management decision to re-align the [P1 Billion Peso] fund back to the government agencies.”
Mr. Pena, don’t you think this would be a good opportunity to show Mr. Roxas that you’re willing to be accountable for your actions? No one expects you to be perfect. We’ve pointed out the serious outages on EDU.PH and GOV.PH servers. Shouldn’t you ask your System Administrators to explain what is going on? We would be more than happy to work with you to resolve these problems, and to suggest ways to fix these problems. After all, the Gov.PH system is your repsonsibility, and it does affect all of us!
And since you seem to be under the impression that either the Gov.ph or Edu.ph registries are technically capable of taking over DotPH’s responsibilities, isn’t it time that you re-examine your reasons for wanting to shut down DotPH? What is the point in Government running the PH Domain if it is just going to result in the kinds of massive outages we seen with edu.ph and gov.ph?
Perhaps, at last, you can just ask your Domain Advisory Board to come up with a list of problems that they’ve seen with DotPH? (Surely they must see some problems with our operation, or else they would not ask you to shut us down!) Then we can all talk about ways to fix these problems in a cooperative problem-solving fashion, and hopefully we can all move on with our lives.
I sincerely hope you think about this carefully.
domainwatch.ph
I notice that the administrator of EDU.Ph, Mr. Bombim Cadiz has questioned the EDU.Ph and Gov.PH outage data presented in our open letters. The data we derived from our study is summarized at http://domainwatch.ph. Note that we even graph the outages!
For instance, here is how gabriela.ph.net behaved on Dec 19, 2004. Gabriela is both an EDU.PH and Gov.PH nameserver. The area marked in red denotes outages. The area in green denotes that the server was up. Since Dec 19 was a Sunday, it’s likely that Mr. Cadiz doesn’t have any SMS alerts to tell him when his servers are down on the weekend.
And below is the graph for Dec 20, 2004 for gabriela.ph.net. Looks like when someone reported in for work on Monday at 9 am, the problem was found and the server was rebooted:
It also looks like the edu.ph Website at http://dns.ph.net has had a troubled December.
edu.ph website Dec 2:
edu.ph website Dec 3:
edu.ph website Dec 5:
edu.ph website Dec 6:
edu.ph website Dec 7:
the website behaves decently for a few days then nosedives again:
edu.ph website Dec 11:
edu.ph website Dec 12:
edu.ph website Dec 13:
Looks like someone came in at 1145 am on Monday then rebooted the web server.
But another outage begins the next day Dec 14:
and the server is rebooted on Dec 15 at 9 am:
I just hope the Edu.PH Administrator will take the time to fix the Edu.PH webserver soon. I notice that it hasn’t been modified in the last 5 years. Does this mean the hardware is also 5 years old?
