[HN Gopher] Wait, Did AS8003 just disappear? ___________________________________________________________________ Wait, Did AS8003 just disappear? Author : Aaronn Score : 46 points Date : 2021-09-10 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.kentik.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.kentik.com) | themodelplumber wrote: | > Once again as a final note: your corporate network may be using | the formerly unused DoD space internally, and if so, there is a | risk you could be leaking it out to a party that is actively | collecting it. How could you know? Using Kentik's Data Explorer, | you could quickly and easily view the stats of exactly how much | data you're leaking to AS8003 (now AS749). May be worth a check, | and if so, start a free trial of Kentik to do so. | | Not that I don't appreciate the free trial offer. But before | getting into data characteristics, I'm curious which addresses | should be examined in a cursory internal look-see? | 0x0000000 wrote: | 11.0.0.0/8 | themodelplumber wrote: | Thank you | Lammy wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre... | baxtr wrote: | _> The message above has a timestamp of 16:57 UTC (11:57am ET) on | January 20, 2021, moments after the swearing in of Joe Biden as | the President of the United States and minutes before the | statutory end of the administration of Donald Trump at noon | Eastern time. | | The questions that started to surface included: Who is AS8003? | Why are they announcing huge amounts of IPv4 space belonging to | the U.S. Department of Defense? And perhaps most interestingly, | why did it come alive within the final three minutes of the Trump | administration?_ | | From the linked article on top, as background info. Quite | interesting. | | https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/ | greyface- wrote: | Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924883 | chaimanmeow wrote: | > However, despite the new origin (AS749) these prefixes are | still routed exclusively through Hurricane Electric (AS6939) | | sounds pretty familiar. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-10 23:00 UTC)