Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

Fri Nov 9 02:44:45 UTC 2018

Speaking of AS1 - I've been wondering, what's it being used for? It looks
like Level3 owns it, and it's announcing a handful of prefixes and peering
with a bunch of random ASes from many different countries.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Steve Meuse <smeuse at mara.org> wrote:

>
> John Orthoefer and I (and dozens of other BBN folks on this list) both
> worked for BBNPlanet at the time that 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 were assigned.
> John was one of the folks who built and ran that system.
>
> So when he said "I wish we could have used 4.4.4.4" and my comment of "I
> think the dial modem folks beat us to..." was referring to the fact that
> when 4/8 was first being deployed on AS1 we started assigning blocks to
> various groups and they realized that 4.4.4.0/XX had already been
> delegated to another internal group (I think it was the dial group).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:45 PM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:
>
>> 4.0.0.0/8 has been GTE/Level3 forever.
>>
>> 4.2.2.1 - 6 have been L3 DNS as far back as I can remember.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 PM Todd Underwood <toddunder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> google used 4.4.4.4 for DNS in the past (2010, IIRC).
>>>
>>> t
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:21 PM Steve Meuse <smeuse at mara.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think it was the dial modem team that beat us to 4.4.4.0/24?
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:44 PM John Orthoefer <jco at direwolf.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wish we could have used 4.4.4.4. Although at the time I suspect we
>>>>> would have used 4.4.4.[123].
>>>>>
>>>>> Johno
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 8, 2018, at 18:58, Matt Erculiani <merculiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So it looks like GE will be solvent for a few more years and 3.3.3.3
>>>>> DNS is incoming.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 17:54 Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quoting from the post:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparently bought in two chunks: 3.0.0.0/9 and 3.128.0.0/9.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Previous owner was GE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anecdotal reports across the Internet that AWS EIPs are now being
>>>>>> assigned in that range.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-0-0-0-1.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-128-0-0-1.html
>>>>>> "
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20181108/593f9ead/attachment.html>