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Which would be a good situation for private address ranges. They have 14 /8 blocks though - wow.
by slownews45 5y ago
Which 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...