IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses

Ben Fairless made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources as part of a batch sent to 29 authorities

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The request was refused by Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.

Dear Department of Agriculture,

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

Foi, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

 

 

Dear Mr Fairless

 

The department acknowledges receipt of your freedom of information request
below, which has been assigned to me.

 

I will contact you further once I have completed some inquiries concerning
your request.

 

Please contact me if you have any queries or concerns. My contact details
are as set out below.

 

Sincerely

 

Stuart Plowman

Government Lawyer |   Office of the General Counsel   |   Freedom of
Information

 

Phone +61 2 6272 5051   |   Fax +61 2 6272 4772   |

 

Department of Agriculture

18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

 

agriculture.gov.au

 

 

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Dear Stuart,

Thanks for your acknowledgement. I forgot to add that I would prefer this request be treated as a request for administrative access. Is this possible?

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).

Yours sincerely,

Ben Fairless

Foi, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Dear Mr Fairless

The department is processing your request as an FOI request.

Sincerely

Stuart Plowman
Government Lawyer |   Office of the General Counsel   |   Freedom of Information

Phone +61 2 6272 5051   |   Fax +61 2 6272 4772   |

Department of Agriculture
18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

agriculture.gov.au

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Foi, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

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Dear Mr Fairless

 

Please find the decision on access in relation to your request enclosed.

 

Kind regards

 

FOI Officer   |   Office of the General Counsel   |   Freedom of
Information

 

Phone +61 2 6272 3933   |   Fax +61 2 6272 4772   |

 

Department of Agriculture

18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

 

agriculture.gov.au

 

 

 

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