https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
Quoting from the post:
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Apparently bought in two chunks: 3.0.0.0/9 and 3.128.0.0/9.
Previous owner was GE.
Anecdotal reports across the Internet that AWS EIPs are now being assigned in that range.
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-0-0-0-1.html
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-128-0-0-1.html
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
Quoting from the post:
"
Apparently bought in two chunks: 3.0.0.0/9 and 3.128.0.0/9.
Previous owner was GE.
Anecdotal reports across the Internet that AWS EIPs are now being assigned in that range.
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-0-0-0-1.html
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-128-0-0-1.html
"
Seems ALTDB should delete the old AS 80 / GE IRR proxy route registration:
http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/search/3.0.0.0
Kind regards,
Job
So it looks like GE will be solvent for a few more years and 3.3.3.3 DNS is incoming.
-Matt
I wish we could have used 4.4.4.4. Although at the time I suspect we would have used 4.4.4.[123].
Johno
google used 4.4.4.4 for DNS in the past (2010, IIRC).
t
Obligatory list of all known same-quad servers and their DNS status - corrections welcome:
https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/6cb91ed94b88730321ca3076006229f1
If there is info about previous/historical use of these IPs, I’d like to find a way to incorporate that as well.
John Orthoefer and I (and dozens of other BBN folks on this list) both worked for BBNPlanet at the time that 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 were assigned. John was one of the folks who built and ran that system.
So when he said “I wish we could have used 4.4.4.4” and my comment of “I think the dial modem folks beat us to…” was referring to the fact that when 4/8 was first being deployed on AS1 we started assigning blocks to various groups and they realized that 4.4.4.0/XX had already been delegated to another internal group (I think it was the dial group).
Maybe Amazon will do something cool with 3.1.33.7 …
dan
3.141.59.27 might be handy.
Matt
Speaking of AS1 - I’ve been wondering, what’s it being used for? It looks like Level3 owns it, and it’s announcing a handful of prefixes and peering with a bunch of random ASes from many different countries.
Remember when AS 1 was Genuity? First BGP session I ever set-up was with AS 1.
It’s still in use, I believe Level(3)/CenturyLink uses it for either their VPN or Voice network.
-Steve
Done.
For anyone else who is suffering from their prefixes malingering in
ALTDB from previous users and has ultimately failed to resolve the
issue with the maintainer of the object, you can escalate the matter
to the db-admin@altdb.net alias. We have recently started a cleanup
effort of the ALTDB database to improve the quality of the routing
information present in it.
It’s been done.
-jav
My upbringing in the 90s makes '5.6.7.8' far more memorable. 
A large part of those peerings appears across various tools because people (mistakenly) just use “1” in prepends (and for that matter AS2 and AS3 as well). We looked at that data a while back and there was a very high amount of noise around that ASN.