North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote: > [Stuff Deleted] > > We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest > Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the > Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting > clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP > supposedly received the same call. > > Get ready for a big outage.... > > [More Stuff Deleted] Well, back in 1999 I was courting Qwest for a new DS3, because they had facilities in the building I was in. When I asked for a list of peers I was told I would have to sign an NDA to find that out, to which I replied I'd find out either way, it would only matter if I got the infor from them or did the research myself. They then started telling me about this super secret OC-192 network they were building for the government, but being sales critters I took it very lightly. It's possible that Qwest could be having problems that may be causing problems with that network, if it exists, but I'm highly suspicious of e-mails saying that the Army wants people to shut down. Regards, -- Joseph W. Shaw II Network Security Specialist/CCNA Unemployed. Will hack for food. God Bless. Apparently I'm overqualified but undereducated to be employed.
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