IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses
Ben Fairless made this Freedom of Information request to Department of the House of Representatives as part of a batch sent to 29 authorities
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Dear Department of the House of Representatives,
I am writing to you to request information pertaining to your Information Technology infrastructure.
Namely, I am after records detailing the IPv4 (and if relevant,
IPv6) addresses used to access the public internet from within your network.
To clarify, these are the public facing addresses of your private network. I am only requesting addresses that are used to access the general public internet.
In addition, if it is such that a particular IP address serves a
particular area within your department (for example, one IP address is used for Media Relations, while another is used for Ministerial Communications), I also request access to this information.
To assist you in locating this information, I suggest it would be found in network documentation, or at the very least in configuration files of your
router and firewall equipment.
Please do not hesitate to reply if you require clarification to
fulfil this request.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
Dear Department of the House of Representatives,
I refer to my request sent via Right to Know. The full request can be found here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/7...
I forgot to add that I would prefer this request be treated as a request for administrative access. If for some reason the request cannot be dealt with in this way, please treat it as a formal application under the Freedom of Information Act (from the date it was initially received).
Please can you confirm receipt of my initial request and this amendment?
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
Dear Department of the House of Representatives,
A response to my request is overdue. Can you please provide the requested information?
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
Dear Mr Fairless
I apologise for the delay in responding to your request below for information on the IT architecture of the Department of the House of Representatives and your subsequent amendment to the original request that this be considered a request for administrative access.
The Parliament House website (www.aph.gov.au) is administered by the Department of Parliamentary Services and not by the Department of the House of Representatives. The most appropriate email address for you to address your request for information is: http://www.aph.gov.au/Help/Contact_Us.
Please also note that since June 2013 the parliamentary departments, including the Department of the House of Representatives and the Department of Parliamentary Services, have been excluded from the application of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
If you have any questions about this advice, please contact me.
Yours sincerely
James Catchpole
Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms
Department of the House of Representatives
Parliament House
PO Box 6021, Canberra, ACT, 2600
ph: 02 6277 4889
[email address]
www.aph.gov.au/house
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Fairless [mailto:[FOI #706 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 7:15 PM
To: FOI (Reps)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses
Dear Department of the House of Representatives,
I am writing to you to request information pertaining to your Information Technology infrastructure.
Namely, I am after records detailing the IPv4 (and if relevant,
IPv6) addresses used to access the public internet from within your network.
To clarify, these are the public facing addresses of your private network. I am only requesting addresses that are used to access the general public internet.
In addition, if it is such that a particular IP address serves a
particular area within your department (for example, one IP address is used for Media Relations, while another is used for Ministerial Communications), I also request access to this information.
To assist you in locating this information, I suggest it would be found in network documentation, or at the very least in configuration files of your
router and firewall equipment.
Please do not hesitate to reply if you require clarification to
fulfil this request.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
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