Afterword

ThimphuTech was the first technology blog in Bhutan. We started writing it in 2009, just as broadband and mobile internet started to take off. (Although internet in Bhutan was launched in 1999, it was either super-slow or super-expensive, and was only used by a selected few).

In the blog, we wrote about technology and food, but also about plenty of other stuff. The blog became popular and influential in Bhutan. A companion bi-weekly column -- Ask Boaz -- was published for many years in the Kuensel, Bhutan's national newspaper. (The complete Kuensel columns are available as an ebook, Blogging with Dragons).

We stopped updating the blog when we left Bhutan in 2014, but the information within the posts can still prove useful, and thus we decided to keep it online.

We thank all our readers.
Tashi Delek,
Boaz & Galit.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Bhutanese cannot access Kuensel, others can

While we have verified that users outside Bhutan are able to access the website of the national newspaper, the Kuensel, access within the country is currently not possible, and visitors are getting a "Cannot find the server at www.kuenselonline.com" error. This can be a server issue (the Kuensel server is currently located outside the country), or an Internet Service Provider (ISP) glitch.

My solution: Go and buy a copy. It's only Nu 5...

We will update you when (and if) we get more information about this bizarre technical issue.

Update: Just saw the following notification on Kuensel's FB page (via their Twitter account):
"To all our online readers who haven't been able to access our website: We are sincerely apologetic. Our tech people have been and are currently still working to fix this issue. Will update you as soon as it's fixed."
Good!
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, October 26, 2011

    You can also try resetting your browser cache coz we launched a new site with a new extension after the domain, your browser might be still trying to serve you the old site from its cache...

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  2. BoazWednesday, October 26, 2011

    Tried that, it does not work. I also tried going directly to www.kuenselonline.com/2011
    I think it's in a more basic level. For example, I don't get a response when pinging kuenselonline.com from my broadband connection, however I do get a response when pinging kuenselonline.com from a server outside Bhutan.

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  3. AnonymuseFriday, October 28, 2011

    Possibly a DNS issue, maybe a problem with Druknet's DNS. Try Google DNS (8.8.8.8) or OpenDNS?

    www.kuenselonline.com resolves to 204.45.133.58 using Google DNS.

    If not a DNS issue, perhaps a tracert/traceroute can shed some light.

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