Autonomous system
AS12279 LAYER-EIGHT
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
VertitechIT
enterprise managed-hosting legacy
A managed IT consultancy's network, announced under a networking in-joke.
What it's used for
- Consultancy and managed services. 256 addresses in one
/24with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Both the AS handle and the netname are
LAYER-EIGHT, registered to VertitechIT, Inc. - The single prefix is
198.199.198.0/24— a repeated pattern, and the sort of block worth keeping once you have it. - One
/24, one neighbour. The entire public footprint of the business.
Interesting
- Layer 8 is the oldest joke in network operations. The OSI model stops at seven layers, so engineers added an eighth for the part of the problem the model does not cover: the user, the budget, the org chart, the person who insists on a decision the protocols cannot save them from. A layer 8 problem is a problem with people.
- Naming an IT consultancy's network after it is a fair description of the work. A firm that gets hired to fix other organisations' technology spends most of its time above layer seven, and whoever registered this block knew exactly what they were claiming as their area of operation.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS7015 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12279- Registry name
- PIXEL-HEALTH
- Registrant
- Pixel Health
- Abuse contact
- jryder@pixelhealth.com
- Registered
- 2002-01-23
- Last changed
- 2026-08-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12279
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS12279
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere