Apple moved from CDN, and ARIN whois

Thu Sep 24 15:57:33 UTC 2020

Apple started moving traffic off 3rd party CDNs to their own CDN six years
ago. This is not a new development.

Also, I see no issues with an ARIN whois lookup for that prefix.

~ % whois 17.0.0.0/8
% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

inetnum:      17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255
organisation: Apple Computer Inc.
status:       LEGACY

whois:        whois.arin.net

changed:      1992-07
source:       IANA

# whois.arin.net

NetRange:       17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255
CIDR:           17.0.0.0/8
NetName:        APPLE-WWNET
NetHandle:      NET-17-0-0-0-1
Parent:          ()
NetType:        Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization:   Apple Inc. (APPLEC-1-Z)
RegDate:        1990-04-16
Updated:        2017-07-08
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/17.0.0.0
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:41 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> Breaking from current CDN infrastructure without reasonable accessibility
> to the new CDN is a problem.
>
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> *Subject: *Apple moved from CDN, and ARIN whois
>
> Hi,
>
> Interesting, it seems AS6185 moved traffic from all CDN to their own
> content network.
> I noticed big spikes in traffic and complaints about slowness, figured
> out, Apple content (especially updates) are not coming from a numerous
> co-hosted CDN, but became "live",
> congesting upstreams.
> So much efforts on collocating endless CDN in premises to keep things
> closer to users and handle traffic surges, and yet again, some companies
> keep inventing their own.
>
> P.S. I dont know if it is bug, but whois at ARIN return "No match found
> for n + 17.0.0.0/8" for 17.0.0.0/8,
> but works fine for single ip from this range, like 17.0.0.0, and returns
> info about 17.0.0.0/8
>
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