[LINK] PM's staff shifts the Wikipedia blame

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:58:19PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> These are the names that the addresses in that /24 resolve to:
> 
> coagbushfireenquiry.gov.au.
> nwccav001.intellicentre.net.au.
> primecav02.intellicentre.net.au.
> ggcav01.intellicentre.net.au.
> primecav01.intellicentre.net.au.
> pm.gov.au.
[...]

> happening: These are basically addresses for webservers and mail
> exchangers, the "front end" for lots of minor agencies. But I'd bet
> London to a brick that the address space is entirely within the control
> of pm&c's network people, and that they - or people close to them - are
> the phantom editors.

They why (or for that matter, how) would PM&C be putting in hostnames
in the *.intellicentre.net.au domain (hint: that's Macquarie Telecoms).

Occam's razor applies - this range is maintained by MCT, and used to host
servers/etc for various government departments - including PM&C.

Sort of the thing you'd expect from a company that provides such services
to federal and most state governments in Australia. eg, 
http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/government_web_hosting_australia.htm

> Alternatively, the entire /24 has been mislabelled. We know that is not

Mislabelled where?  There is no whois information for this range beyond
the fact it's allocated to MCT by APNIC.  Anything that is showing you
a further breakdown than that is guessing, and very likely to be wrong.
ip2location.com even go so far as to say that these IP addresses are
"located" in Canberra, when I'd put money on them actually being in
Sydney.

Whilst a /24 generally isn't going to be subnetted that's not to say
that it's not going to be used by various departments - be that in
the form of co-located servers, NAT, proxy servers (which may even be
used by multiple departments themselves), etc, etc.

  Scott.