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US Department of Defense has 14 /8 blocks. You'd have to wonder what they do with that large number of public IPs. Sure, some companies have large blocks but t
by atkbrah 5y ago
US Department of Defense has 14 /8 blocks. You'd have to wonder what they do with that large number of public IPs.
Sure, some companies have large blocks but that's nothing compared to that.
- martin8412 5y agoLast I heard, that any project needing more than one IP got a /24
- lesuorac 5y agoAsk them [1] and report back. [1]: https://open.defense.gov/transparency/foia.aspx https://open.defense.gov/transparency/foia.aspx
- judge2020 5y agoThe actual page to request is foia.gov: https://www.foia.gov/request/agency-component/4fce7e7d-3b32-4da3-9922-5245dffde737/ https://www.foia.gov/request/agency-component/4fce7e7d-3b32-...
- kube-system 5y agoThe DoD is also larger than any company.
- bombcar 5y agoBy employees it’s the largest, though if Walmart bought McDonalds they’d have more employees (and perhaps as many chemical weapons).
- Wohlf 5y agoThey use them like private IPs, across several air gapped networks. When I was enlisted we were putting them on desktops.
- ipaddr 5y agoHow does this scale to other military globally. Does anyone else have an /8 block?
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- Melatonic 5y agoSupposedly they do use some of it for honeypotting schemes but I imagine some of it is out of paranoia
- kube-system 5y agoMost of it is probably just because they invented IPv4, and were therefore able to keep as much as they wanted.