[56925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Mar 21 19:29:01 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:26:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0303211851210.4605-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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 ??
Steve
>
> 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.
>
>
