I'm currently experiencing problems getting through to friends/family in NYC
from London.
Anybody else having the same issues ... ?
Both WTC towers are down. My guess is that every person in NYC
is calling / being called by their families. The government
has been moved to a secure location (probably Mount Thunder.)
I cannot get any US news site in my bookmarks.
I have heard that cell phone service in DC is down.
I would anticipate some difficulty in getting through.
e-mails still seem to be working well.
Marshall
Chuck Youse
From: Greg Pendergrass [mailto:greg@band-x.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:15 PM
To: 'Nanog@Merit. Edu'
Subject: World Trade Center attack
Both towers of the World Trade Center are burning after planes flew into
them in an apparent suicide attack. Many people are certainly dead. I don't
give a damn what network disruption this causes, but please say a prayer for
those killed.
Greg Pendergrass
Marshall Eubanks
tme@21rst-century.com
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>I'm currently experiencing problems getting through to friends/family in NYC
>from London.
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>Anybody else having the same issues ... ?
Both WTC towers are down. My guess is that every person in NYC
is calling / being called by their families. The government
has been moved to a secure location (probably Mount Thunder.)
I cannot get any US news site in my bookmarks.
I have heard that cell phone service in DC is down.
I would anticipate some difficulty in getting through.
e-mails still seem to be working well.
I am sitting in the San Francisco Bay Area, can't get through
to germany :-/
Rumor has it (from a reliable source) that there are LD switch problems
all over the country with at least one major carrier, not just NYC right
now. Attempts to make LD calls to non-NYC areas have gotten me all
circuits busy. Anyone else?
Regards,
FYI - Apparently, the Taliban has specifically come out and said that Osama
Bin Laden has NOTHING to do with this attack and condemned the bombings.
To me this virtually guarantees that he had something to do with it.
Apparently Palestinians are dancing in the streets:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010911/1/1fkyw.html
Larry Diffey
Calls to the midwest(omaha, KC and Denver) for me via sprint pcs have not
gotten through(all circuits busy), land line calls have been mixed. t
I am currently able to make LD calls and International calls (to Norway,
at least) via MCI.
Not too surprising really, considering the number of calls that are probably
being attempted to try and check on loved ones, friends etc, not to mention
what may be reserved or taken over for emergancy agencies and such to
communicate. I've had a bit of trouble calling anywhere LD today as well.
/Alexander Kiwerski
CNBC is reporting that according to two Sr. US Intelligence officials the
current most likely suspect is indeed Osama Bin Laden.
If I were the Taliban, I'd be preparing to offer him up. I think the
reason they initially indicated that he had nothing to do with it is
because they are afraid, as they should be, of a swift reprisal. If they
can connect it to him, I would not want to be a resident of Afghanistan.
Regards,
FWIW - my attempts to direct dial in to DC and NYC around 10:30est today from
here in Indiana all met with no success - some even got no error recordings -
just silence, other met with "all circuits busy" recordings. However, an very
helpful AT&T LD operator was able to get a call into DC for me just before 11am,
but could not get a circuit into nyc.
During the same period, i also received several calls out of both the NYC and DC
area, so it appears that the "block inbound / allow outbound" restrictions that
were described here earlier worked as intended.
Alexander Kiwerski wrote:
Northern Afghan rebels seemed to have shelled their capital.
I realize this is a big story and some of you are worried about
friends/family but can we please keep posts to this list on-topic?
General news about the recent attacks you can get from your TV or news
related web sites.
The only stuff here should be here is how it specificly affects Internet
links, sites and traffic.
If they
can connect it to him, I would not want to be a resident of Afghanistan.
I don't want to belabor the obvious, but living in afghanistan pretty much
sucks already...
What appeares to be the largest offensive since the taliban took kabul
back in 96 appears to have started in the north.
With something like 40% of the population under the age of 14 and the life
expectancy pegged at about 45 it's fair to say that most of the population
hasn't lived in a time when there wasn't a war going on in afghanistan,
since the russians invaded in 1979.
Simon. The United States of America (as a whole) is under a state of
National Emergency. Many portions of the nation have states of
communications emergency in effect. Given the impact of this cowardly act
by savage bastards on the nation that not only invented the net but for
the larger part *IS* the internet (for every 1 site you can name in NZ
that a US citizen would visit on a regular basis, I can name 1000's in the
US that NZ citizens visit on a DAILY basis), I submit that ANY news
related to this event is on-topic and much more impacting to the
operations of the Internet as a whole than arguements about NAT, PMTU,
SPAM, blah blah blah.
You've got to be kidding.
Without being too long-winded, suffice it to say that if you'd recall the
significance of this list's acronym, you'd probably realize that many here
were acquainted with many in and around the towers. This is much more
than "a big story".
Many posts regarding the tragedy have been useful, some have been
heartening, and some have been downright depressing. It's human nature
for people to look to their peers in such situations for sharing info, for
solace, etc.
This is not a time to be petty, so please don't.
:
:I realize this is a big story and some of you are worried about
:friends/family but can we please keep posts to this list on-topic?
:
:General news about the recent attacks you can get from your TV or news
:related web sites.
:
:The only stuff here should be here is how it specificly affects Internet
:links, sites and traffic.
:
:
:
I've actually had very little to no problems making and receiving both
cellular and landline calls in and out of Omaha, where I am.
YMMW.
--Adam
Also, the long term repercussions of today's events may well be
staggering for this group, and our industries as a whole. However,
if you do not wish to read it, the subject lines(except for that crap
about MAPS) have been pretty obvious. Use the D key, or write a filter.
...and anyway, this is NANOG. not AUSNOG. Oops, I mean NZNOG. (or APNOG)
Please show some patience and tolerance, Simon - this is a major
catastrophe. If you see threads that say "WTC" or "World Trade Center", you
can safely delete those messages. If it happened in Sydney, I don't think
we'd be asking Geoff Huston and the rest of the Aussie operators to tone it
down. I've personally been following the threads and find them alternately
amusing, tragic, and educational, but YMMV.
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