[atkbrah]

US Department of Defense has 14 /8 blocks. You'd have to wonder what they do with that large number of public IPs.

Sure, some companies have large blocks but that's nothing compared to that.

[Wohlf]

They use them like private IPs, across several air gapped networks. When I was enlisted we were putting them on desktops.

[kube-system]

The DoD is also larger than any company.

[bombcar]

By employees it’s the largest, though if Walmart bought McDonalds they’d have more employees (and perhaps as many chemical weapons).

[ipaddr]

How does this scale to other military globally. Does anyone else have an /8 block?

[martin8412]

Last I heard, that any project needing more than one IP got a /24

[lesuorac]

Ask them [1] and report back.

[1]: https://open.defense.gov/transparency/foia.aspx

[judge2020]

The actual page to request is foia.gov: https://www.foia.gov/request/agency-component/4fce7e7d-3b32-...

[Melatonic]

Supposedly they do use some of it for honeypotting schemes but I imagine some of it is out of paranoia

[kube-system]

Most of it is probably just because they invented IPv4, and were therefore able to keep as much as they wanted.