The other affected websites included Ministry of IT & Telecommunication, Ministry of Commerce, E-Government Directorate (EGD) and others. Sources and a number of cyber savvy professionals in Pakistan, the UK and Canada that the country’s prime cyber access point was inaccessible.
Despite repeated phone calls by the web surfers to the officials concerned in the EGD of the IT & Telecom ministry, the portal could not be restored until late Friday.
According to official sources, the EGD staff waited for Friday to intervene and started restoration attempts at servers located in the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) premises.
“Due to a failure at the EGD servers, the country’s web portal was down along with websites of other ministries,” a well-placed source said. It is also learned that the out-dated servers could not take up the web access load eventually leading to an absolute outage.
“The problem has been identified and the corrective actions have been taken by the related department,” said Noor-ud-Din Baqai, member telecom of the IT& Telecom ministry, said.
Quelle/Source: Gulf Times, 11.02.2007
