JINX Services

Domain name services

A number of important DNS services are hosted at JINX. As well as UniForum SA, the operator of the CO.ZA second-level domain, ISPA provides space to several international service providers who offer DNS services, including, Autonomica, Community DNS, Internet Systems Consortium, Packet Clearing Hose and UltraDNS.

Through these partners, JINX users have access to a wide variety of domain name services, including:

  • An instance of the .CO.ZA second-level domain (operated by UniForum)
  • An anycast instance of the I-Root server together with ~20 ccTLDs and gTLDs (operated by Netnod/Autonomica)
  • An anycast instance of the F-Root server (operated by ISC)
  • Instances of the .BIZ and .CAT gTLDs (operated by PCH)
  • Instances of the .ORG, .INFO, .COOP and .AERO gTLDs (operated by UltraDNS)
  • Instances of more than 40 ccTLDs (operated by PCH and UltraDNS), including:
    .AF, .BS, .BT, .CN, .CX, .CY, .DK, .DM, .FR, .GS, .GY, .HT, .IE, .IN, .IQ, .KE, .KI, .LK, .LS, .LU, .MS, .MT, .MU, .MV, .MZ, .NA, .NO, .NP, .PM, .PR, .PS, .RE, .RS, .SA, .SB, .TF, .TL, .TT, .TW, .UA, .US, .WF, .YT

In order to benefit from the domain name services offered by these partners, JINX users need to establish peering sessions with each of them. Contact details and more information about their networks is available via the ISPA member portal.

Looking Glass server

The Looking Glass server provides JINX routing information to any ISPs who establish peering sessions with it.

Details for the peering session are:

ASN: 65000
IP: 198.32.142.253

To access the Looking Glass, once you have established a peering session with it:

telnet://lg.jinx.net.za
username: lg
password: (no password required)

Traffic graphs

Graphs of the traffic across the JINX switch fabric are available at: http://stats.jinx.net.za. Information on the consolidated traffic at JINX is publicly available, while detailed traffic graphs for each individual switch port is available to ISPA members.