Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

[Christopher Hawker <chris () thesysadmin au>]

Starting to digress here for a minute...

How big would a network need to get, in order to come close to
exhausing RFC1918 address space? There are a total of 17,891,328 IP
addresses between the 10/8 prefix, 172.16/12 space and 192.168/16 space. If
one was to allocate 10 addresses to each host, that means it would require
1,789,132 hosts to exhaust the space.

- Christopher H.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 18:45, Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net> wrote:

> ----- On Dec 9, 2023, at 9:55 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG nanog () nanog org
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Location: http://33.3.37.57/
>
> > But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this
> legitimate? Ali
> > hoping to get away with squatting, or something else?
>
> Not very long ago I worked for a well-known e-commerce platform where we
> nearly
> ran out of RFC1918 space. We seriously considered using what was then
> un-advertised DOD space to supplement RFC1918 space inside our data
> centers.
>
> Perhaps AliExpress did get to that level of desperateness?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sabri