The main Iraqi network connections are still functioning. Uruklink.net,
Iraq2000.com, Baghdadlink.net, etc systems are responding. The public web
servers appear to be very congested or non-responsive; but because I can
reach other systems (mail, dns, etc) I suspect people are overloading
the webservers.
And to answer the question, no I don't know why the .IQ top-level domain
is registered in Richardson Texas, nor do I know why the official state
provider uses .NET and .COM instead of .iq.
Since either the Iraqi government or the US government could shutdown the
relatively limited external links from Iraq; I'm guessing both governments
have decided its worth leaving the Internet links in place. Or its not
worth the hassle of trying to shut them down.
The main Iraqi network connections are still functioning. Uruklink.net,
Iraq2000.com, Baghdadlink.net, etc systems are responding. The public web
servers appear to be very congested or non-responsive; but because I can
reach other systems (mail, dns, etc) I suspect people are overloading
the webservers.
My DNS shows www.thosedomains to be in iana-reserved space and dns is hosted at
european satellite base stations ??
Steve
Interesting. My DNS still had the old DNS/IP answers cached. The servers
are still at the original addresess. I DIGed abit and found the name
servers are now returning different addresses.
I'm guessing either the Iraqi state provider got tired of paying the
satellite upstream to carrier the HTTP packets. At one point, a person
told me over 40% of the hits on the Iraqi web servers were coming from US
IP addresses.
Or someone has hacked their name servers. I was also told the Iraqi state
provider was running a old, vulnerable version on their name servers.
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
The main Iraqi network connections are still functioning. Uruklink.net,
Iraq2000.com, Baghdadlink.net, etc systems are responding. The public web
servers appear to be very congested or non-responsive; but because I can
reach other systems (mail, dns, etc) I suspect people are overloading
the webservers.
My DNS shows www.thosedomains to be in iana-reserved space and dns is hosted at
european satellite base stations ??
That's pretty simple...
They were allegated some adress space from their provider, which in this case would be the Satellite Feed Company in Europe/UK. That's why they've got European Adress Space.
And the only host i've found now, was:
nic1.Baghdadlink.net A 62.145.94.1
inetnum: 62.145.94.0 - 62.145.95.255
netname: LB-Transtrum
descr: Transtrum sal
country: LB
admin-c: SN3704-RIPE
tech-c: SN3704-RIPE
tech-c: JS3277-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
notify: jsaade@transtrum.com
mnt-by: AS13126-MNT
changed: darren.frowen@sms-internet.net 20030225
source: RIPE
... and if you check the route to nic1. it seems as if they'r hosted in .iq
11 62.32.32.86 (62.32.32.86) 79.218 ms 78.814 ms 79.487 ms
12 * * *
13 62.145.94.1 (62.145.94.1) 639.456 ms 630.628 ms 627.752 ms
Definitely looks like the other end of a satellite connection.
I can't reach uruklink nor Iraq2000.com atm though.