RE: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-13 Thread Mark Scholten
-Original Message- From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgr...@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

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-13 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Joe Greco wrote: There's no way it's as widely used, and generally speaking, it appears that those who have used it have done so out of ignorance and(/or?) stupidity, sometimes blindly following documentation without comprehending, etc. I don't know about that.

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 03/12/2010 01:20 PM, Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And I'm not sure what they

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-13 Thread Joe Greco
On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Joe Greco wrote: There's no way it's as widely used, and generally speaking, it appears that those who have used it have done so out of ignorance and(/or?) stupidity, sometimes blindly following documentation without comprehending, etc. I don't know about

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:52 -0800, Nathan wrote: Hello, I'm hoping to alleviate the what's going on!? type messages here this time. :) stupid question Any IPs we can ping and get a response back from to verify everything is ok? 1.2.3.4 isn't pingable, for example. :( /stupid question

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
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. :) -- TTFN, patrick Here's an except from the APNIC provided LOA I provided to

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:53 AM, William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:52 -0800, Nathan wrote: Hello, I'm hoping to alleviate the what's going on!? type messages here this time. :) stupid question Any IPs we can ping and get a response back from to

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:34:10AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Oh, I understand what's going on exactly. YouTube is trying to balance their ratios. :) That might explain why they're only announcing it behind Cogent. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Nathan
A trace-route reaches the Youtube border... so everything is ok. The routes are being ECMP'd to a set of capture hosts for the purpose of spreading load, aggregating more disk-space for packets, providing some form of redundancy for the experiment, etc. We're receiving about 175mbps of

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Nathan
We've never cared about ratios... its futile! Level3 is slow to update prefix lists this time. I simply picked a couple networks that respond to my emails. My laziness to call others is why the route isn't visible there. :) ,N On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Richard A Steenbergen

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Axel Morawietz
Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And I'm not sure what they are doing when they are going to receive this route

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And I'm not sure what they are doing when they are going

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Loch kl...@kl.net wrote: Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 12 Mar 2010, at 1:34, Kevin Loch wrote: Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And I'm

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And I'm not sure what they are doing when

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Nathan
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

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
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

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Brian Feeny
On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Kevin Loch wrote: Axel Morawietz wrote: Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan: [...] Its amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is. one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.* for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones. And

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread david raistrick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote: If 1.0.0.0/8 has been widely used as de-facto rfc1918 for many years, perhaps it is time to update rfc1918 to reflect this? I seem to recall that the WIANA project decided to use 1.0.0.0/8 for the internal network within their meshAP project...

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote: [something I didn't write] If 1.0.0.0/8 has been widely used as de-facto rfc1918 for many years, perhaps it is time to update rfc1918 to reflect this? I seem to recall that the WIANA project decided to use 1.0.0.0/8 for the internal network within

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Joe Greco wrote: So: I decided to use 5/8 for our internal networks because I felt that it stretched my fingers too much to go all the way over to 1 and then over to the other end of the top row to 0. 5 seemed a happier and easier choice. The Hamachi P2P VPN client beat you to it... they