I appreciate your tenacity! SSI = Streaming Services Inc., always wholly owned by Netflix.
We had three ASNs at one point. We needed a fourth to do a migration and the ASN gods smiled down on us and gave us 2906 out of a newly released pool of unallocated ASNs, back in 2011. That ASN birthed our CDN, Open Connect, and it became our primary because it was just too nice to use on a corporate network. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Brett Watson <br...@the-watsons.org> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:28:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs > On Oct 12, 2017, at 15:53, Richard Hicks <richard.hi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone know the history behind ASN 2906 (Netflix)? > How did they get a number that low? I didn’t recognize as2906 so went digging... and I can’t find a thing. ARIN has a “who has” service but my account on ARIN was locked and I wasn’t able to unlock without calling them (maybe tomorrow). The AS-Name is “AS-SSI” (there is an AS-Set listed on RIPE named this) which I suspect might lead to the original owner. It looks familiar-ish but I’m not sure who had it before Netflix. Clearly they must have bought it outright, acquired the original owner, or something, but I’ll be damned if I can find historical data on who it originally belonged to. -b
