[56934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Iraqi Internet communications still working 3/21/03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johannes Catterwell)
Fri Mar 21 19:59:57 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:02:39 +0100
From: Johannes Catterwell <johannes@catterwell.de>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303220025090.23739-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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@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.
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Johannes Catterwell, Darmstadt / Germany
johannes at catterwell dot de
To err is human, to forgive is just not my policy.
