[ih] Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life

[Scott Brim]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 1:43 PM Bob Hinden via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I have read several of the articles on this, anyone know what was really
> going on?
>

**Apparently** the DoD has contracted with that company to detect people
using net 11 and clean them up. The advertisement is legit, the agreement
is legit, and it's too bad nobody thought to let the (rest of the) Internet
know they were about to advertise 11/8.