Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03

Sat Mar 22 01:02:39 UTC 2003

Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan 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 at transtrum.com
mnt-by:       AS13126-MNT
changed:      darren.frowen at 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.

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Johannes Catterwell, Darmstadt / Germany
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