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It's also possible that DoD is using its ranges but not publicly announcing routes to them.
by schoen 5y ago
It's also possible that DoD is using its ranges but not publicly announcing routes to them.
- slownews45 5y agoWhich would be a good situation for private address ranges. They have 14 /8 blocks though - wow.
- schoen 5y agoLet's see, according to https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-add... it looks like 6/8, 11/8, 21/8, 22/8, 26/8, 28/8, 29/8, 30/8, 33/8, and 55/8 are allocated to organizations that are part of DoD. That comes to ten /8 allocations. Am I missing some?
- bradknowles 5y agoDang. I thought as one of my last actions as the DISA.MIL Technical POC in 1995, I had successfully turned 22/ back into the NIC, so that it could be re-assigned to someone else who needed it. When we swept that address space repeatedly, we sure didn’t see anyone actually using it. Dang.
- dtaht 5y agoAt current prices .mil selling off 22/8 would net them at least 2 F-22s. Not quite the same as selling off tsla stock, but...
- ArchOversight 5y agoIt's much easier and nicer to use globally unique addressing if you've got it than to set up multiple NAT's just to allow different sites to re-use the same private IP space. I worked at an ISP in a previous job where we ran out of RFC1918 space, and were squatting on UK MoD/DoD/other IP space for internal traffic because we simply had no more IP's to assign within RFC1918. It was a bad situation when one of those ranges we were squatting on suddenly became used and customers were unable to reach certain services...