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Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Tue Sep 13 10:14:19 2005

In message <[email protected]>, "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