Apple moved from CDN, and ARIN whois

Thu Sep 24 18:23:45 UTC 2020

Mine is default whois on latest stable ubuntu.

x at x:~$ whois --version
Version 5.5.6.

Report bugs to <md+whois at linux.it>.
x at x:~$ whois 17.0.0.0/8

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No match found for n + 17.0.0.0/8.

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On 2020-09-24 18:57, Tom Beecher wrote:
> 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 [13]
> % 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 [14]
> 
> changed:      1992-07
> source:       IANA
> 
> # whois.arin.net [14]
> 
> NetRange:       17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255
> CIDR:           17.0.0.0/8 [13]
> 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
> 
> ...
> ...
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions [1]
>> [2] [3] [4] [5]
>> Midwest Internet Exchange [6]
>> [7] [8] [9]
>> The Brothers WISP [10]
>> [11] [12]
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> 
>> From: "Denys Fedoryshchenko" <nuclearcat at nuclearcat.com>
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:27:07 AM
>> 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 [13]" for 17.0.0.0/8 [13],
>> but works fine for single ip from this range, like 17.0.0.0, and
>> returns
>> info about 17.0.0.0/8 [13]
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.ics-il.com/
> [2] https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL
> [3] https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb
> [4] https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions
> [5] https://twitter.com/ICSIL
> [6] http://www.midwest-ix.com/
> [7] https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix
> [8] https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange
> [9] https://twitter.com/mdwestix
> [10] http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/
> [11] https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp
> [12] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg
> [13] http://17.0.0.0/8
> [14] http://whois.arin.net