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esseph 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

I'm sure all of that is true, but so is "Department of Defense".

They're also the largest holder of IPv4 space, still. https://bgp.he.net/report/peers#_ipv4addresses

squigz 8 months ago [–]

Why does the DoD hold so many IPv4s?

ErikBjare 8 months ago | | [–]

They were assigned a huge prefix at the creation of the internet iirc

esseph 8 months ago | | [–]

ARPANET, precursor to the internet, was a DoD project.

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