[196241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Sat Oct 14 06:28:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in>
To: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:19:23 +0000
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I appreciate your tenacity!
SSI =3D Streaming Services Inc., always wholly owned by Netflix.
We had three ASNs at one point. We needed a fourth to do a migration and th=
e ASN gods smiled down on us and gave us 2906 out of a newly released pool =
of unallocated ASNs, back in 2011.
That ASN birthed our CDN, Open Connect, and it became our primary because i=
t was just too nice to use on a corporate network.
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Brett Watson <brett@the-=
watsons.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:28:45 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs
> On Oct 12, 2017, at 15:53, Richard Hicks <richard.hicks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know the history behind ASN 2906 (Netflix)?
> How did they get a number that low?
I didn=92t recognize as2906 so went digging... and I can=92t find a thing. =
ARIN has a =93who has=94 service but my account on ARIN was locked and I wa=
sn=92t able to unlock without calling them (maybe tomorrow).
The AS-Name is =93AS-SSI=94 (there is an AS-Set listed on RIPE named this) =
which I suspect might lead to the original owner. It looks familiar-ish but=
I=92m not sure who had it before Netflix. Clearly they must have bought it=
outright, acquired the original owner, or something, but I=92ll be damned =
if I can find historical data on who it originally belonged to.
-b
