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 <sme...@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 <beec...@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 <toddun...@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 <sme...@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 <j...@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 <merculi...@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.kuh...@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 >>>>>> " >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>
