AS16347 INHERENT

A thousand and forty-one neighbours, and the AS handle is an adjective that names no company in the record.

What it's used for

• A carrier's network. A hundred and sixty-two prefixes announced from France, sixteen of them IPv6, two hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and sixty-eight addresses, through one thousand and forty-one observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is a single word meaning built-in or intrinsic. It matches no company name, brand or netname anywhere else.
• Two netname families run through the blocks, each with a country code, a brand and a date. One brand is three letters, the other a compound word for servers, and each family has its own registrant company.
• The date formats disagree inside one family. Two blocks registered months apart in the same year write that year with two digits on one and four on the other.
• The three-letter family carries five contacts per block: an administration role, an architecture team, an incident response team, the company, and an abuse service.
• Eight of eighteen queried addresses answered. Every name is three letters for a router, the four numbers of the address with dots intact, and a domain whose country suffix is not the one these prefixes are announced from.

Interesting

• A thousand peers on a quarter of a million addresses is a carrier that sells reach rather than space.
• The reverse zone points at a foreign suffix while the routing points at France. That is what happens when a group buys across borders and consolidates the DNS before the paperwork.