AS11382 WRF162

WRF162 is Wiley Rein LLP (now trading as Wiley), a Washington, DC law firm best known for telecommunications, government-contracts and regulatory practice. The AS routes the firm's own network — an enterprise, not a provider.

What it's used for

RIS sees a single IPv4 prefix, 162.222.152.0/24 — 256 addresses — no IPv6, and one observed BGP neighbour. That is the smallest routed footprint a network can have and still be in BGP at all. The reason a firm this size holds an AS number is portability and control rather than capacity: it owns its address block outright, so it can move transit providers, sit behind a scrubbing service, or be allow-listed by clients and agencies without renumbering. A single /24 cannot serve subscribers, and one peer rules out any carrier or hosting role.

Notable

The prefix is registered in ARIN as network WILEY-REIN-NET, org Wiley Rein LLP — the registrant is the holder, so this is first-party space with no sign of the third-party-registrant pattern that marks leased or brokered address blocks. The pack found no PTRs on the two addresses it sampled; two probes are a sample and prove nothing about whether the zone is delegated, so nothing is read into it.

Interesting

The handle is an internal code, not a description — WRF162 most plausibly encodes the old firm initials plus the 162 in its prefix. It is a small reminder that ARIN handles are chosen by the holder for the holder's convenience and routinely tell you nothing at all about what the network does.