[ih] The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 27-Apr-21 08:04, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
> https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949

Well, not really very much news there. Maybe the real motivation is to attract attackers: a sting operation propagated by BGP4. Or maybe to play mind games with other regimes that have chosen to use this address space since they believed it would never be announced.

Strangley enough, traceroute for many of these addresses seems to get as far as Ashburn VA before petering out. I wonder, could there be any large US Government sites somewhere around there?

    Brian