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

Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by fred256 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:59PM (#26926922)

Not just Chinese companies. I know of one FAANG company that used internal IP addresses in the 11.0.0.0/8 space (in addition to, not instead of, RFC 1918 space).

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by walrus01 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @02:01PM (#26926932)

Every time I've seen this it's because of inefficient and wasteful use of 10/8 internally. Like, not every tiny site or thing needs a /24. Once the wasteful use becomes entrenched as a practice, it would be very labor intensive and time-consuming to go on a renumbering plan. As compared to the effort to just use 11/8.

And then ultimately because of refusal to get over the technical hurdle of using IPv6 for internal management.

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by knorker on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:44PM (#26928434)

But have you seen inside of FAANG?

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by globular-toast on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:10AM (#26932419)

Why don't they use IPv6? Is there still a lot of hardware out there that doesn't support it? It seems perfect if it's internal only.

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by snowwrestler on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:50PM (#26928477)

Well I would hope it’s not Apple since they already own all of 17.0.0.0... one of only 7 private companies that own their own /8, as far as I know.

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