[57121] in North American Network Operators' Group
OUTAGE: Known Iraq public Internet service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 28 18:21:28 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:20:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In the last few hours, all the public Internet hosts I knew were
physically in Iraq (i.e. connected through the Iraqi state provider),
have stopped responding. I don't know the cause (power failure,
telecom failure, physical damage, shutdown by administrator, etc).
Of course, this does not mean there are no IP-enabled devices
operating within Iraq's physical borders. The Iraq government and
military may have private IP networks, not connected to the Internet
or connected in ways I don't know about. Likewise the US military and
various news media are carrying IP enabled devices in southern Iraq, but I
don't know their IP addresses. I also believe in Kurdish controlled areas
have seperate Internet connections.
