Uganda DNS Hackathon 2024 — Foundational Sprint
Laying the Groundwork for .UG Registry Automation & Peering
Archive of the 2024 Foundational DNS Sprint focusing on .UG zone resilience, UIXP latency monitoring, and DNSSEC key management.
Status — Past Hackathon:
Completed & archived edition — winning prototypes, technical reports, and cohort metrics preserved.
96+
Engineers & Fellows
9 Squads
Competing Teams
Makerere University CoCIS Auditorium
Host Venue
Official Trophy, Registry Fellowship & Incubation
Recognition & Incubation
Archived Winning & Finalist Prototypes
LOCAL CONTENT LATENCY
94.0 / 100
East Africa IXP Probe
UIXP PingMatrix: Cross-ISP DNS Resolution Benchmark
RIPE Atlas + local Raspberry Pi probe dashboard measuring .ug RTT across 6 ISPs.
Python, FastAPI, Grafana
LOCAL CONTENT LATENCY
92.0 / 100
UIXP Probe Pioneers
Kampala DNS AtlasProbe: East African .UG Resolver Latency Mapper
2024 Foundational Sprint Winner. Mapped query round-trip times across 12 Ugandan ASNs to demonstrate 68% latency reduction via local UIXP root/ccTLD peering.
Python, RIPE Atlas API, BIND9, Grafana
DNSSEC ADOPTION
89.0 / 100
Victoria Zone Signer
ZoneGuard 2024: Open-Source BIND9 Signing Toolkit
CLI wrapper around dnssec-signzone with cron health checks.
Bash, Python, BIND9