[42055] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borchers, Mark)
Thu Sep 13 10:15:38 2001
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From: "Borchers, Mark" <mborchers@splitrock.net>
To: "'Seth M. Kusiak'" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>, nanog@merit.org
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:46:15 -0500
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Was this in the NYC or DC region, or elsewhere? It's not
as if there's a nationwide bandwidth shortage....
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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.
>
> Get ready for a big outage....
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