On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox 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 ??
Interesting. My DNS still had the old DNS/IP answers cached. The servers are still at the original addresess. I DIGed abit and found the name servers are now returning different addresses. I'm guessing either the Iraqi state provider got tired of paying the satellite upstream to carrier the HTTP packets. At one point, a person told me over 40% of the hits on the Iraqi web servers were coming from US IP addresses. Or someone has hacked their name servers. I was also told the Iraqi state provider was running a old, vulnerable version on their name servers.