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Pentagon hands IP addresses to Florida company as part of a security pilot program
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The U.S. Department of Defense has given a Florida company control over about 175 million of its IP addresses as part of a security pilot program.
The IP address range, registered as GRS-DoD, AS8003 became active Jan. 20 in the last minutes of the Trump administration, with several pundits suggesting that the timing may be conspiratorial in nature. The company handed the IP addresses is called Global Resource Systems LLC, a previously unknown company which the Associated Press described Saturday as “shadowy.”
The IP addresses were noticed as becoming active at the time and there’s not a shortage of them about 6% of all IPv4 addresses on the internet. That the Defense Department owns the IP addresses has long been known it created the internet and has held the IP addresses for decades but for much of that time, the majority had remained dormant.
A file photo of the Pentagon in Washington. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the Internet that it owns. Many basic questions remain unanswered, beginning with why it chose for the task a company that seems not to have existed until September. AP
BOSTON: A very strange thing happened on the Internet the day US President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the Internet owned by the US Department of Defense.
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The unexplained awakening over the past four months of more than 100 million previously dormant US Department of Defense (DoD) IPv4 addresses now has an explanation.
On January, 20, 2021, as noted over the weekend by Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network monitoring biz Kentik, a sizable portion of unused IPv4 address space registered to the DoD (GRS-DoD) and referred to as AS8003, began announcing the reachability of millions of previously unreachable addresses via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Coming ten minutes after President Joseph Biden was sworn into office and three minutes prior to the statutory conclusion of Donald Trump s term, the timing of the BGP announcement invited speculation about the motives for lighting up so many previously dark addresses.
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