AS15153 STARWIRELESS-15153

Four brand names across one small provider's record, none of which is the same as another.

What it's used for

• A wireless and fibre provider's network. Thirty-two IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 /32 announced from the United States, with three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle appends this AS number to a brand that is not the registered holder's name.
• The netnames split into two families: STARVISION-CGNT-NET-1 and -NET-2, which put an upstream carrier's abbreviation inside the holder's name, and STARWIRELESS-BLOCK1 and BLOCK2, which use the other brand.
• Both sampled answers sit under a third domain again, as starvision-fttx-5-p254.intrstar.net and a second name that leads with a place and a service word.
• One registry lookup failed, so that block's ownership is unknown rather than absent.
• Thirty-two prefixes carry thirty thousand addresses, so the network is announced in small pieces.

Interesting

• Four names for one operator, spread across the handle, two netname families and a DNS domain, is the most fragmented identity in this batch. Every field is internally consistent and no two agree, so this network cannot be found by searching for any single string.
• Embedding the upstream carrier's abbreviation in a netname records who supplied the block. It is useful and it decays: the carrier's name outlives the relationship, and the netname keeps saying it.
• Reverse names carrying a service word distinguish the wireless side from the fibre side, a split the registry does not record anywhere.