Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: > Could this also be part of a "communications blackout" ? No, not in a > sinister, government keeping secrets, manner. A friend of mine serves on a > ship that's over there right now. He dropped me a note last night that they >

Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-18 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: > Wasn't this announced on the news already? Yup, I learned more about it later after I saw this on Nanog. > I am definitely not one to be outside of hearing about a conspiracy theory or > something, but I know up in our neck of the woods in the

Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread Michael DeMan
Wasn't this announced on the news already? That because the infrastructure in Japan was hit (no highly publicized) but still working, that the US military also said they were blocking u-tube and other high bandwidth sites in order to conserve resources? I am definitely not one to be outside of

Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:22 PM, William Warren wrote: > As a former Military Member I can tell you we don't have unlimited amounts of > bandwidth...especially overseas. There's been several undersea cables > damaged or completely knocked offline. I don't find this policy very > surprising due to

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread William Warren
On 3/16/2011 12:14 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: What's to be surprised about? This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university campus. To think these guys have built a cyber command with war waging capabilities, and all

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:14:13AM -0700, andrew.wallace wrote: >> This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university >> campus. [...] It strikes me straight away as amateurish to be blocking >> web sites in able to have en

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:14:13AM -0700, andrew.wallace wrote: > This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university > campus. [...] It strikes me straight away as amateurish to be blocking > web sites in able to have enough bandwidth for operational purposes. On the contrary,

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread JoeSox
Andrew, I am not sure I understand your statement (below). The ONE-NET network is what I have worked on in the past while in the Navy Reserve http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0OBA/is_1_23/ai_n15390013/ http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Multimax-Awarded-74-Million-in-Options-for-Navys-O

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread andrew.wallace
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: > What's to be surprised about? This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university campus. To think these guys have built a cyber command with war waging capabilities, and allegedly capable of building nuclear worms such

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:49:56PM -0600, ryanL wrote: > should i be surprised that this hasn't been discussed much? anyone care to > elaborate and/or expand on the real telecom damage done in japan? What's to be surprised about? The US military is temporarily blocking access to certain high-tra