OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?
Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all Share Copy 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 t...