On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
AOL has and uses (publicly) a bunch of space in 172/8. In fact, looking at a BGP table, I'd say they're by far the largest user (one of the only) in that /8.
We, AOL, have 172.128/10, 172.192/12, 172.208/13, 172.216/16. These blocks represent our dial-up ISP customers that can't seem to get broadband or for whatever reason, stay on dial-up. Also pretty amazingly is how high the simultaneous user count has stayed, guess the folks that left weren't the ones on in the evenings between 7-10pm ET. We (mostly me) are looking into solutions to be able to remove the reliance on this space. Unfortunately, most of the developers, who created the various servers/applications that dole out these addresses, all left in the late 90's with some pretty fat wallets; at this point... it's an archeology dig. Jay -- Jay Moran http://tp.org/jay