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Re:Scans of North Korean IP Space by grobinson on Saturday December 20, 2014 @05:22PM (#8778157)
Seeing as North Korea only have 3 allocated address blocks, 175.45.176.0/22, 210.52.109.0/24 and 77.94.35.0/24 they only have approx. 1530 globally reachable IP addresses. However, North Korea must have more than ~1530 hosts. Does this mean that they use some kind of NAT, or is their number of internet connected hosts just that small?

Is there any information about the intranet in North Korea? Do they have a private class A network that everyone in the country is connected to with their own DNS servers, routers, etc which are unreachable from the rest of the internet?

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Re:Scans of North Korean IP Space by palunon on Saturday December 20, 2014 @05:34PM (#8778193)
Only a small number of authorized persons and high ranking government officers have access to the Internet in North Korea, so I guess it is that small.

The common people have access to the Kwangmyong, which is an IP network not physically connected to the Internet.

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Re:Scans of North Korean IP Space by vesche on Saturday December 20, 2014 @05:46PM (#8778222)
It's very likely they run larger private ip space behind these IPs...
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Re:Scans of North Korean IP Space by spacefight on Saturday December 20, 2014 @07:36PM (#8778512)
A small IP range is not relevant these days. Almost every fuckin' telco uses NAT and proxies for their mobile customers, at scale.
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