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@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Seth M. Kusiak Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:39 AM To: nanog@merit.org Subject: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below? [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]