Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

Tue Nov 20 17:20:48 UTC 2018

A large part of those peerings appears across various tools because people
(mistakenly) just use "1" in prepends (and for that matter AS2 and AS3 as
well). We looked at that data a while back and there was a very high amount
of noise around that ASN.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:16 AM 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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Anurag Bhatia
anuragbhatia.com
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