Autonomous system
AS16058 Gabon-Telecom
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Gabon Telecom
telecom isp government
The holder's name is the same long string printed twice, and half the blocks are registered to nobody.
What it's used for
- A national telecommunications operator. Twenty-nine IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6
/32announced from Gabon, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand and forty-eight addresses, across four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The holder field contains the operator's name and the state postal and telecommunications office, separated by a slash, and then the whole thing again after a hyphen.
- Well over half the blocks have the word for not known in both the netname and the registrant field.
- The rest share one netname, a registry organisation handle with mixed capitals in the middle and the regional registry's name on the end.
- The registrant text on those blocks is not consistent either: some spell the office's name with the joining word and some leave it out, on otherwise identical entries.
- Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand addresses behind only four neighbours.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A state post and telecommunications office is the institution most national operators grew out of, and in many countries the two names still appear together in the paperwork long after the commercial arm became a separate company.
- Four neighbours for a quarter of a million addresses describes a country with very few paths in or out. The address count reflects population and ambition; the neighbour count reflects geography and cable landings.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 29 prefixes · 258K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GA | Gabon | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS16058- Registry name
- ORG-OoPa1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Gabon Telecom / Office of Posts and Telecommunications of Gabon
- Registered
- 2007-01-25
- Last changed
- 2025-10-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 47 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16058
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 46 of 47 announcements
- Route objects
- 48 naming AS16058
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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