Re: Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

[Ross Tajvar <ross () tajvar io>]

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 () 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 () 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
> > > > > > "