[82316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rogaski)
Tue Jul 12 11:07:40 2005
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:02:52 -0400
From: Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>
In-reply-to: <20050712143428.GA25459@core.center.osis.gov>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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An entity claiming to be Joseph S D Yao (jsdy@center.osis.gov) wrote:
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: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
: > > > All this while I was trying unsuccessfully to use my
: > > > mobile to ring the office.
: > >
: > > Some cell relays were temporarily shut to prevent a remote
: > > detonation of additional explosives. Cellular remotes seem
: > > to be a favorite of Al Qaeda and others.
: >=20
: > UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service.
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: My personal experience, with the last few disasters, is that cell 'phone
: services tend to shut themselves down in the affected areas. Sort of a
: natural feedback type of thing. ;-]
:=20
I heard it was a feature called Catastrophic Response Adaptive SHutdown.
Mark
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