[138836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Sat Mar 19 00:49:23 2011
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <74ED5184-E383-4A83-B588-23606263D0AA@godshell.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:49:00 -0700
To: "Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold" <xenophage@godshell.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
> Could this also be part of a "communications blackout" ? No, not in a =
sinister, government keeping secrets, manner. A friend of mine serves =
on a ship that's over there right now. He dropped me a note last night =
that they were going into a communications blackout to try and control =
some of the wild miscommunication being sent out.
That's fairly common with naval operations. They go into a blackout when =
there is some probability of a PR or intelligence fumble, usually =
related to an upcoming mission assignment.=
