[84429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Tue Sep 13 10:04:15 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050913.061351.14961.398222@webmail27.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> It quoted a Department of Health official as saying every email it had
> sent to FEMA staff bounced. "They need a better internet provider during
> disasters," the Journal quoted her or him as saying.
>
> A number of US agencies made desperate calls to the Department of
> Homeland Security and to Congresswomen and men, the article claimed.
>
> The newspaper did not say which computer systems FEMA uses.
$ dig mx fema.gov
;; ANSWER SECTION:
fima.org. 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net.
fima.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
fima.org. 3600 IN NS PARK5.secureserver.net.
fima.org. 3600 IN NS PARK6.secureserver.net.
[This is Godaddy and their datacenter is obviously in Arizona]
$ dig fima.org
[snip]
$ ;; ANSWER SECTION:
fema.gov. 1800 IN A 205.128.1.44
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
fema.gov. 1800 IN NS ns.fema.gov.
fema.gov. 1800 IN NS ns2.fema.gov.
$ whois -h completewhois.com 205.128.1.44
[snip]
Level 3 Communications, Inc. LVLT-ORG-205-128 (NET-205-128-0-0-1)
205.128.0.0 - 205.131.255.255
Federal Emergency Management Agency FEDEMERGENCY-1-18 (NET-205-128-1-0-1)
205.128.1.0 - 205.128.1.127
Note: They also have 192.206.40.0/24 (not routed), 205.142.100.0/22
(not routed), 64.119.224.0/20 (not in bgp) and 166.112.0.0/16
(announced by 2828 - XO).
While its possible that L3 or XO could have been down with one of
their southern links, I really dont think it would effect their
Washington, DC customers.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
