IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses
Ben Fairless made this Freedom of Information request to Department of the Treasury as part of a batch sent to 29 authorities
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Dear Department of the Treasury,
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 Treasury,
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 Mr Fairless
Thank you for your FOI request, received on 16 July 2014 seeking:
‘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.
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Regards
FOI Team
Parliamentary and Legal Services Unit
Ministerial and Communications Division
The Treasury, Langton Crescent, Parkes ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6263 2800
Email: [1][email address]
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Dear Mr Fairless
Thank you for your request dated 16 July 2014 seeking:
“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.].”
Treasury currently uses four IPv4 addresses to access websites on the
public internet. The addresses we use are as follows:
192.195.49.170
192.195.49.171
192.195.49.172
192.195.49.173
The information you have requested is publicly available and as such, we
will deem your FOI request withdrawn.
Regards,
FOI Team
Parliamentary and Legal Services Unit
Ministerial and Communications Division
The Treasury, Langton Crescent, Parkes ACT 2600
phone: (02) 6263 2800
email: [1][email address]
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1. mailto:[email address]