[123624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Mar 12 07:34:35 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <c2a90a311003112252t62555c02vc83fb3f96b152820@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:34:10 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Nathan wrote:
> I'm hoping to alleviate the "what's going on!?" type messages here =
this time. :)
Oh, I understand what's going on exactly. YouTube is trying to balance =
their ratios. :)
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TTFN,
patrick
> Here's an except from the APNIC provided LOA I provided to a couple
> networks, to carry a new announcement...
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> "To whom it may concern,
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> APNIC and YouTube are cooperating in a project to investigate the
> properties of unwanted traffic that is being sent to specific
> destinations in the address block of 1.0.0.0/8. This address block has
> been recently allocated to APNIC from the IANA, and
> APNIC and YouTube are wanting to undertake this investigation prior to
> the commencement of ordinary allocations.
> Accordingly, APNIC authorizes AS36351 to periodically advertise a
> route for 1.0.0.0/8 from now until 21 March 2010, and
> requests that AS36351's peers and upstreams accept this as a
> legitimate routing advertisement."
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> In a continuation of last weeks experiments... we are now announcing
> 1.0.0.0/8 instead of 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.2.3.0/24.
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> Cheers
> ,N (nathan@youtube.com - AS36561)
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