-----Original Message----- From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco@ns.sol.net] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:53 PM To: Nathan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
There are sizable chunks that are fairly quiet (un-interesting numbers, luck of the draw, etc). Given that its mostly mis-configurations, laziness, ignorance, or poor planning... I suspect the worst ranges will need to be sacrificed, and the remaining 80-90% of the space used for legitimate allocations. Unfortunately, anyone who accepts allocations in 1.x will need to be aware that they will have a slightly lower quality address-space. Accepting 1.1.1.0/24, for example, will land you with a continuous 50mbps of junk... seemingly forever... and a respectable chance that some percentage of the net will never reach you, due to their own misconfigurations.
Practical solution:
Move YouTube to 1.1.1.1, Google to 1.1.1.2, Yahoo! to 1.1.1.3, Facebook to 1.1.1.4, etc.
It is probably the best way to get 1.x free if it is used by big websites. However I don't think that they will change it (to only use these IPs). I think they have an interest somewhere to not change it...
Maybe someone at YouTube was actually testing that strategy ;-) I have something else where I would be happy to accept 1.1.1.0/24 for some time, just to try to get them change settings. If someone want information about it, feel free to contact me off list.
Regards, Mark