[84432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Sep 13 10:13:05 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:01:00 PDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.62.0509130618010.16184@sokol.elan.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:08:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509130618010.16184@sokol.elan.net>, "william(at)elan
.net" writes:
>
>
>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
That's interesting -- I'm not getting that response.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
