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by lobster45 5344 days ago
DOD has 211 million public IP's! That is a way to reduce the budget deficit by auctioning off extra IP's. I doubt the DOD needs that many public IP's
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The best part is that the DoD is working hard to limit the outgoing bandwidth to just a certain subset of IP addresses in an attempt to limit their attack surface, so most of those IP addresses are never going to be externally accessible and may simple be used internally for internal only networks.
Or like a tax refund they could give one to every adult in the USA!
Given that the DoD would probably still run the infrastructure.... no way I would accept that....