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The US Division of Protection puzzled Web consultants by apparently transferring management of tens of thousands and thousands of dormant IP addresses to an obscure Florida firm simply earlier than President Donald Trump left the White Home, however the Pentagon has lastly provided a partial clarification for why it occurred. The Protection Division says it nonetheless owns the addresses however that it’s utilizing a third-party firm in a “pilot” venture to conduct safety analysis.
“Minutes earlier than Trump left workplace, thousands and thousands of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life” was the title of a Washington Put up article on Saturday. Actually three minutes earlier than Joe Biden turned president, an organization known as World Useful resource Programs LLC “discreetly introduced to the world’s laptop networks a startling improvement: It now was managing an enormous unused swath of the Web that, for a number of many years, had been owned by the US navy,” the Put up mentioned.
The variety of Pentagon-owned IP addresses introduced by the corporate rose to 56 million by late January and 175 million by April, making it the world’s largest announcer of IP addresses within the IPv4 world routing desk.
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