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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...

Do a control-f for "DOD". These guys have so much IP4 space its not even funny. Being the government, they'll never give it up. So a total of 200 million IP4 addresses:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/02/13/where-did-all-the-ip-num...

So, when the country that starts the internet is also the country with the largest, by far, military and has obscene military spending, well, this is what happens.




I doubt the DOD purchased IP blocks much as I doubt Apple pays for their domain name.

Back before the commercialization of the Internet these things were relatively free.


Wow. For the curious but unmotivated, here are the /8 IPs they control:

7.0.0.0/8 11. 21. 22. 26. 28. 29. 30. 33. 55. 214. 215.

(omitted the 0.0.0/8 from all but the first for brevity)


I just had a LOST flashback.


Are you sure it wasn't a... flash forward?




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