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Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Alternatively, money is grifted for political patronage.

Are you saying that the most corrupt US president ever (an individual so mentally challenged that managed to bankrupt FOUR casinos, the only money making machines where the customers literally throw money at you) grifted billion of dollars from the most valuable IP4 addresses in the world?

You need to inform yourself better. Joe Bye-done is compromised by China and is the most corrupt and incompetent president ever (bad combination). China elected him. You can see the documentary evidence at Frankspeech.com .

These IP addresses will be used in a manner related to China and their interference in our election resulting in the improper installation of Sloppy Joe in the Whitehouse. You're welcome.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Still seems a bit odd to me. It doesn't explain why "GLOBAL RESOURCE SYSTEMS, LLC" is involved. Poking around, the individuals associated with that aren't government employees. The company was formed 9/8/2020 in Delaware.

Who are the people associated with that company? I’d like to further investigate them.

There's a reason it's a Florida company. Florida is the only state that provides for "double blind" corporations whereby the people associated with it can remain completely anonymous. Look it up if you aren't familiar.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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There has been a brief period in my life when I did not have the clearance to read code I was writing.

I feel like there's a joke about Perl hiding somewhere in there.

"There's more than one way to do it, and all of them are classified!" (TIMTOWTDI TS) :)

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Some of those less-cluefull operators include Juniper and Azure[1], Cisco[2][3], and probably many other companies. When Cloudflare put its 1.1.1.1 DNS server into use, it started receiving huge amounts of packets destined to unroutable addresses because the 1.0.0.0/8 space was (mostly?) unused. If you configure your routers correctly, none of these IP addresses should resolve, anyway. If something in your network is…

What IPs does the DoD actually host defense-related services on? E.g. https://www.defense.gov/Resources/Military-Departments/A-Z-L...

A lot is in the 150-160 range

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Ha! “Unmarked white van” is the WiFi name at my local dog daycare. I got a good laugh.

My wifi is called nsa_net

Mine is your_wife_is_hot.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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The HE link doesnt mean they are signed. It just means the IRR records are correct. You would see a green key on the prefixes if they were signed (and correct) The prefixes are in the https://www.radb.net Somebody (as everybody can do this with radb) said to RADB that 8003 is the correct origin for these prefixes. Considering the DoD hasnt rained hell on the RADB, Id guess theyre good as well, but its not RPKI signed…

Ah, my bad. I looked around and now know what RPKI signed actually looks like on HE. https://bgp.he.net/ip/1.1.1.1

I always recommend the nlnog IRRexplorer for this stuff.

Much better to see what the situation is for IRR/RPKI for a prefix/AS:

Cloudflare: http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/search/1.1.1.0/24

One of the prefixes this thread is about: http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/search/7.0.0.0/24

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Thanks a lot, Appreciate. It is not I don't want to pay the washingtonpost.com. I just don't have time to read them.

For text-only view, no Javascript or cookies: curl https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/?outputType=amp |grep -o " " > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm

If you're on Android using an app like Materialistic to browser HN, like I am, use a reader-mode-only app like Reedy to open your articles; since it only parses html and doesn't run scripts, it will work on every site that sends the whole article and not just a snippet.

I'm partial to Reedy because it tends to fall "safe" and include more content rather than less, but other similar apps should work just as well (SmartNews has a similar function, as do Article Reader Offline, wallabag, and Webreader; I find Reedy has the best UI/feature set for my use).

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For text-only view, no Javascript or cookies: curl https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/?outputType=amp |grep -o " " > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm

If you're on Android using an app like Materialistic to browser HN, like I am, use a reader-mode-only app like Reedy to open your articles; since it only parses html and doesn't run scripts, it will work on every site that sends the whole article and not just a snippet. I'm partial to Reedy because it tends to fall "safe" and include more content rather than less, but other similar apps should work just as well (Smar…

TBH, I never use a "smartphone" for web browsing. Screen is too small, no tactile keyboard, etc. Also, I generally do not install mobile apps. Only a few from F-Droid on Android, one or two on iOS.
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