[56922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 21 19:06:23 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:03:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
