Autonomous system
AS13418 WHG-FORBGP-02 - Fort Wayne Newspapers, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Fort Wayne Newspapers
media business enterprise
The AS handle reads like a service provider's work order rather than a name.
What it's used for
- A newspaper company's network. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix,
204.106.0.0/24, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
WHG-FORBGP-02, whose leading initials match neither the holder nor the netname. - The block is netname
FWNEWS, registered to the newspaper company. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- The handle parses as another organisation's initials, an abbreviated city, the routing protocol, and a sequence number. That is a managed service provider's internal label for the second such customer arrangement it set up, and it became the permanent public identifier for this autonomous system because whoever filed the request pasted in what they were already calling it.
- A newspaper holding its own address space and its own AS number dates from when a paper ran its own classifieds site, its own mail, and its own dial-up service for subscribers. What is left is a /24 and one upstream.
- The netname is the only field here that describes the organisation, which makes it the only one worth reading.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS6536 | CityNet | 58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-07, 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
AS13418- Registry name
- WHG-FORBGP-02
- Registrant
- Fort Wayne Newspapers, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- jchaykowsky@ogdennews.com
- Registered
- 2020-07-27
- Last changed
- 2020-07-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS13418
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS13418
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: 454 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-11-08. 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