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 ... ... On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:41 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Breaking from current CDN infrastructure without reasonable accessibility > to the new CDN is a problem. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Denys Fedoryshchenko" <nuclear...@nuclearcat.com> > *To: *nanog@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" 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 > >
