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 sterlind on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:29PM (#26928047)

but if they're not filtering BGP announcements for those ranges (however unlikely), and the GFW isn't blocking traffic out to those addresses (even more unlikely), and the internal metrics were high (super unlikely), I guess it'd slurp out all the traffic? maybe this was a weird smash-and-grab.

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by Aperocky on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:36PM (#26929626)

You'd be surprised, but GFW is a blacklist not a whitelist, as such the blocked domains and/or IPs are a very small subset of all public addresses out there.

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by kijin on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:46AM (#26931052)

Even with a blacklist, a large and contiguous range like 11.0.0.0/8 won't be particularly difficult to block or reroute.

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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to... by moonchild on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:50AM (#26930411)

I'd imagine that, with the advent of ipv6, it would have to be.

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