Comment by kloch
3 years ago
I don't know (or care) about how he got that ASN but ARIN does occasionally recycle returned 3 or 4 digit ASN's, including very recently:
20220607|arin|US|asn|888|1|assigned|66e25d155d3f3d57ff208733b59f8cc8
20220607|arin|US|asn|889|1|assigned|5b048aafff56a02f895e68ac5188853b
20220607|arin|US|asn|890|1|assigned|708d3f11915973323c76a5f95fa2d775
20220607|arin|US|asn|891|1|assigned|ab9bfca0becd32b7fe44c7ea0ba1aac3
20220607|arin|US|asn|892|1|assigned|0b9118a23862aab1647fd26939f7b219
20220607|arin|US|asn|893|1|assigned|57d59e6dfd1cd07523724f9cf5fc572b
20220607|arin|US|asn|894|1|assigned|0a932835b90a81bffeb1539b4bc93040
The first time ARIN did this with a lot of 4-digit ASN's was 2009 and was how Netflix was able to get AS2906.
There is also a market for reselling ASN's that aren't needed anymore: https://auctions.ipv4.global (filter by ASN)
He's been a backbone guy since the the mid-1990s.
pc literally said he was not talking about this guy, can’t win I guess
The way it was written, it left many of us wondering what the answer to the question was, though.
In this case, this wasn't recycled - his is actually decades old