Re: Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

[Steve Meuse <smeuse () mara org>]

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 () 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 () 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 () 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 () 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 () 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 () 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
> > > > > "