Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?

Thu Sep 13 13:55:15 UTC 2001

Why would the "Military" do this? This makes little no no sense, and seems
to be a troll. "so there would be more bandwidth" - yeah, right.

- Daniel Golding

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Seth M. Kusiak
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:39 AM
To: nanog at merit.org
Subject: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?

Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?

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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....

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