[123694] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Scholten)
Sat Mar 13 08:53:13 2010
From: "Mark Scholten" <mark@streamservice.nl>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <201003122153.o2CLrNgn015793@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:52:15 +0100
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> -----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
