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DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want, DPRK just doesn't have that much infrastructure that they want externally accessible. As far as I k
by monerozcash 11mo ago
DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want, DPRK just doesn't have that much infrastructure that they want externally accessible.
As far as I know, end-user traffic from within North Korea usually does not originate from those few IP addresses. Or at least not visibly so, they might be connecting to a proxy from a DPRK IP address.
- lukan 11mo ago"DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want" IP4 is quite limited as far as I know and not given out freely since a long time, or what do you mean here?
- jauer 11mo agoIPv4 continues to be available to entities that have a need that fits a particular policy shape, just most people don't. Specifically, you can get IPv4 /24s for IPv6 transition purposes. This includes anycast DNS, MX, etc for legacy clients on other networks, v4-side of CGNAT, etc. E.g. I was able to get a /24 in the ARIN region in 2021 and could justify 2 more for a _logical_ network topology similar to what NK presents to the world. APNIC similarly has a pool available for IPv4 allocations: https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#the-situationin-apnic https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#the-situati...
- eqvinox 11mo agoIPv4 is a question of money in almost all cases at this point. You can get what you can pay for.
- monerozcash 11mo agoIPv4 is readily available and not very expensive. DPRK can just buy or lease them.
- toast0 11mo agoAPNIC has some addresses [1] and will assign up to two /24s to qualified new accounts within the region. There are also carve outs for National Internet Registries and Internet eXchange Points. [1] as of Nov 2025, approximately 3 million or a little more than 12,000 /24s https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#how-to-trasnfer-ipv4 https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#how-to-tras...
- protocolture 11mo agoApnic used to hand out a /22 to most members. Its now a waiting list for 2 /24s. They would probably give some priority to a nation state over yet another mdu fibre isp.