Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Given micro services and VM architectures these days, it’s not even difficult to imagine a company as large as Ali Baba 
burning through more than 17 milllion hosts.

Owen


> On Dec 10, 2023, at 00:08, Christopher Hawker <chris () thesysadmin au> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:sabri () cluecentral net>> wrote:
> > ----- On Dec 9, 2023, at 9:55 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG nanog () nanog org <mailto: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