Squat space is now being advertised by AS 749 (DoD Network Information Center)

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Hi, this week it looks like the DoD owned squat space that was previously advertised by AS 8008 (a shadow company called Global Resource Systems, see https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949) is now being advertised by AS 749 (DoD Network Information Center). Does anyone have any idea why this change was made? Is the DoD planning on actually legitimately putting services on the space soon instead of using it as a giant honeypot? Or maybe even selling it?

Thanks,

Rich

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Hi, this week it looks like the DoD owned squat space that was previously advertised by AS 8008 (a shadow company called Global Resource Systems, see https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949) is now being advertised by AS 749 (DoD Network Information Center). Does anyone have any idea why this change was made? Is the DoD planning on actually legitimately putting services on the space soon instead of using it as a giant honeypot? Or maybe even selling it?

Thanks,

Rich

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Both articles are base don Doug Madory's research:

Cheers,

- ferg

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When can we reclaim all this unused space from the US DoD? Serious question.

I’ve never understood how they can just sit on this without having to do something with it.

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In 2007, the US DoD was asked the question of possible return of underutilized IPv4 space and returned several /8’s as a result – Recovering IPv4 Address Space

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

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Remember, just because a prefix isn't in your routing table doesn't mean the address space isn't in use.

The DoD uses a fair bit of the address space allocated to them on networks that are not visible from the public Internet. Whether they use it efficiently is, perhaps, another matter.