Despite very old recommendations, the Iraqi state provider Uruklink.net kept all of its name servers on the same subnet. Although this is recognized as a poor design, many domain name server operators worldwide do the same thing. nic1.baghdadlink.net. 2D IN A 62.145.94.1 nic2.baghdadlink.net. 2D IN A 62.145.94.2 The nic2 (62.145.94.2) has been offline for over a week. Yesterday the remaining name server nic1 (62.145.94.1) was running an old version of bind (8.1.2). It was returning obviously bogus answers to queries. In the last 24 hours, the name server application on nic1 (62.145.94.1) went offline. The server is online (responds to pings), but neither tcp or udp port 53 responds. The name server application may have crashed, been trashed, or shutdown by the system administrator.