AS16028 Orange Caraibe

Eight IPv6 prefixes and four IPv4 blocks, for an island operator filed under a mainland country.

What it's used for

• An overseas arm of a national operator. Four IPv4 prefixes and eight IPv6 prefixes announced, two thousand three hundred and four addresses, through a single observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The blocks are recorded against the parent company's country rather than the islands they serve, which is how overseas territories usually appear in this data.
• Two netnames are three initials and the word for a wireless network; a third uses the same initials with the word for a network. The initials belong to neither the holder nor the handle.
• The fourth is the former national telephone company's name and two numbers, and it is the only block registered to the group rather than to the island operator.
• Every block lists the group's registry membership role, written as the brand and the old telephone company's domain.
• Two of twelve queried addresses answered. Both are three letters for address translation, a number, and a two-letter code, and the two codes differ: one name per island.
• Eight IPv6 prefixes against four IPv4 blocks, an inversion of the usual ratio.

Interesting

• Two-letter island codes in reverse names are the only place in the whole record where the geography shows up. Everything else says the mainland.
• Address translation named in the reverse zone means subscribers share these addresses, which is the normal answer when a mobile network has far more customers than addresses.