[51826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Sep 6 17:49:40 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:45:31 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jeff Shultz <jeffshul@wvi.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200209062141.g86LfTbr017385@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:01:24 PDT, Jeff Shultz <jeffshul@wvi.com> said:
> > Coonts has an inflated idea of what an outage there would do the the
> > internet... but there is a lot of other stuff fairly nearby, isn't
> > there?
>
> *You* know that a hit on 60 Hudson would probably be worse (especially
> considering all the OTHER stuff that would be in blast range). *I* know that.
> The rest of the NANOG readership knows that.
We had examples of that on Sep 11th and it wasnt -that- bad...
> However, the organization based in Reston probably has on the order of
> 1,500 times more subscribers than the NANOG list does... ;)
>
> > ...most of us have as our claim to fame the ability to talk to
> > inanimate objects and convince them they want to listen to us.
> > -- Valdis Kletnieks in a.s.r
>
> Wow - I'm famous. ;)
famous or infamous? :)
Steve
