Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

Fri Nov 9 03:12:15 UTC 2018

It's still in use, I believe Level(3)/CenturyLink uses it for either their
VPN or Voice network.

-Steve

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:44 PM Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>
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