Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

Tue Sep 13 14:44:56 UTC 2005

At 10:29 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote:

>on Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> >
> > Looks Solaris'ish
> >
> > # telnet ns2.fema.gov smtp
> > Trying 162.83.67.144...
> > Connected to ns2.fema.gov.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 ns2.fema.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7; Tue, 13 Sep 2005
> > 09:49:36 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Well, how is any automated system supposed to find it? Sheesh.

>Apparently, that host accepts mail to postmaster; we'll see if it is
>actually delivered/read/responded to.

SOA said root.ns2.fema.gov. It might be someone actually read's roots mail ?

I will cc that addr so if its read, they can see the thread at

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg11505.html

and perhaps comment.

         ---Mike

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