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Re: Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03

  • From: Johannes Catterwell
  • Date: Fri Mar 21 20:01:37 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: [email protected]
mnt-by: AS13126-MNT
changed: [email protected] 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
johannes at catterwell dot de
To err is human, to forgive is just not my policy.