[84448] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Tue Sep 13 14:13:37 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:13:03 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "David Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> http://www.fema.gov/staff/extended.jsp
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> Lists an "IT Services Division" that has ~250 possible points of =20
> contact.
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> Surely one of them has some clue... :-/ I think this sort of=20
> problem =20
> shows the endemic disease currently in place at FEMA. It's not just =20
> an "IT gaffe" or firewall mistake. It's a failure much more=20
> serious, =20
> sadly.
ObOp: Email is NOT a reliable form of communication.
DHS shouldn't start to think so either. NANOG=20
shouldn't worry about if someones email is working
as a byproduct, but sure worry if the store and forward
function of an ISP is. '
Anything below that is the individual SP's problem, IMO.
Perhaps there are reasons some corporate or volunteer
mail service is not working i.e. blocked, disallowed on port,
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ObNotOp:
Anyone who needs to contact FEMA, already knows how. If they
are using a web page address, they probably shouldn't be contacting
FEMA directly, but working through their own government hierarchy.
