[SATLUG] Free WiFi Router if you'll join the system (which is also free and gets you free wifi all over!)

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:18 PM -0600 2/14/07, Mitch Thompson wrote:

>>  Seems very cool. I live in an apartment complex, so I'm pretty sure I can
>>  get some users hanging off of me. Too bad I don't work for a business
>>  that would be interested in supporting this (blasted DoD and their
>>  network security).
>
>  I wouldn't wish NIPRNet on anyone!!!

Hey, at least NIPRnet and SIPRnet are using real DNS with real 
network numbers as issued to them by the NIC.  At the time I was the 
DISA.MIL Technical POC, the program manager had this "wonderful" idea 
of just using whatever random network numbers they wanted to pull out 
of their ... posterior ..., and they seemed to think that HOSTS.TXT 
files were the greatest thing since sliced bread.

It took a long time, but I finally managed to convince them that we 
needed to have a sit down meeting, which itself lasted quite a while. 
But I did finally manage to convince them.  I think what actually did 
it was pulling out the spectre of the mythical "Multi-Level Secure" 
network and how they could not possibly achieve that if they didn't 
use DNS and real network numbers as issued by the NIC.

Of course, I left the agency a few months later.


Before I left, I confirmed that there were no more machines anywhere 
on the X.25 network using the 26/8 netblock, and I turned that back 
in (along with a few /16s and several /24s).  Unfortunately, I 
discovered years later that either that paperwork had somehow gotten 
lost, or those networks had been re-issued to them.  Sigh....

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