[42048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevin pop account)
Thu Sep 13 09:50:43 2001
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:47:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: kevin pop account <kevin@gannons.net>
To: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.org
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Should this request not be via the telcos pre-empting the circuits ?
Also does the military not operate its own private network services
both voice/data ?
Regards,
Kevin
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote:
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> Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?
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> We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest
> Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the
> Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting
> clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP
> supposedly received the same call.
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> Get ready for a big outage....
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