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The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
- Subject: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
- From: alex at corp.nac.net (Alex Rubenstein)
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:11:36 -0400
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> The only slight snag in his argument is that the addresses are not unused.
> Not announced != Not used.
And for the definitive answer on this block, the official response is:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet_protocol_ipv4_address_a and
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet_protocol_ipv4_address_a_2
This is astounding. Are we really to believe that the UK Defense folks are using 60% of a /8 - about 10,066,000 addresses?
Even if every sub-allocation within that 60% were only 50% utilized, that would be over 5,000,000 addresses.
Internally Allocated != used
And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these addresses.