[123697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Hess)
Sat Mar 13 11:29:08 2010
In-Reply-To: <003d01cac2b4$63cfe030$2b6fa090$@nl>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:28:40 -0600
From: James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Mark Scholten <mark@streamservice.nl>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mark Scholten <mark@streamservice.nl> wrote:
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> 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...
If they added a basic javascript-based 1.0.0.0/8 HTTP connectivity
test to www.youtube.com , and alerted users whose networks
definitely had issues, there might be some interesting results,
due to the site's popularity.
Alert as in 20 seconds interstitial message before a video the user
tried to play starts ... something like "Your network seems to have
some connectivity problems to the Youtube.com IP address 1.2.3.4
and 1.2.3.5, your video will start in XX seconds. Please contact
your network administrator."
It would be a decent strategy. But yes, I guess there's no real
reason for Youtube etc to do something like that, other than being
charitable, or someone paying them to do it (as in advertising fee),
plus a week's use of some 1.0.0.0/8 addresses is probably not a
long enough time for that.
Depending on how many (or few) issues there are with the /8, the RIR
should want something like this. If end user networks have
broken connectivity to the IP space, most of them might otherwise
never notice, causing harm and pain to 1.0.0.0/8 web/e-mail
address assignees setting up web and e-mail facilities with those
addresses that their prospective contacts/visitors never notice,
since user's attempt at initial contact simply failed, they never
met to do business (e.g. They assumed it was an old site that closed
down, broken link, etc)...
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-J
