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: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).tOn Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:21 PM Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org> wrote: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].JohnoSo it looks like GE will be solvent for a few more years and 3.3.3.3 DNS is incoming.-MattOn Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 17:54 Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com wrote: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.
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