[42050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth M. Kusiak)
Thu Sep 13 09:57:44 2001
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From: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>
To: kevin pop account <kevin@gannons.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.org
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:52:35 GMT
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I just sent eveything that I was forwarded, I don't know anymore nor have I
heard this from my provider. I find this hard to believe and I just wanted
to see if someone knew something that I didn't.
kevin pop account writes:
> 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:
>
>>
>> Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?
>>
>>
>> [Stuff Deleted]
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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.
>>
>> Get ready for a big outage....
>>
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