AS 3356 (Level 3) -- Community 3356:666

Wed Aug 4 13:39:00 UTC 2021

$ whois AS3356 -h rr.level3.net | grep -E 'blackhol|666'
remarks:       3356:666 - Peer route
remarks:       3356:9999 - blackhole (discard) traffic

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Patrick

Am 04.08.2021 um 15:28 schrieb Sriram, Kotikalapudi (Fed) via NANOG:
> There is an old NANOG thread from 2005 that said AS 3356 (Level 3) were applying 3356:666 to indicate Peer route:
> https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2005-12/msg00280.html
> Also, see: https://onestep.net/communities/as3356/
>
> Now network operators commonly use ASN:666 for BGP Blackholing Community.
> (ASN = the operator's AS number)
> See, for example, https://www.he.net/adm/blackhole.html
>
> Does anyone know if AS 3356 has changed how it uses 3356:666?
> I.e., is it known if they now use it for Blackholing Community?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sriram
>