I was recently browsing Fixedorb.com’s Knodes Index that tracks the size of IP Networks and the number of addresses they control. Apparently DISA CONUS (Defense Information Systems Agency - CONtinental United States ) has a larger network than anyone else. I don’t understand why this would be so? There aren’t that many people in the military as compared to the general population, and that should be somewhat refelective of the number of servers/workstations they have, no? Why would the military have more IPs than anyone else?
I don’t find it suprising in the least. After all, the internet was invented for the US Military.
IP number ranges were handed out a long time ago. At that time the US military was the biggest user.
Also if you look at your cite you will see that the military has only 5% of the total used IP space. So it does not control anywhere near the Majority of the internet. It is just the largest signal organization.
I think that’s the answer; the US military controls more Class A ranges than anyone else. But I doubt that they are using all the addresses available to them. (MIT has a Class A range, giving it up to 16 million addresses, but I doubt they have that many.) And since many of us use private addresses and NAT, there’s no way to correlate IP ranges under control to actual systems.