Autonomous system
AS16403 BOISE-CASCADE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Boise Cascade
enterprise business infrastructure
All four blocks share one netname, and the address baked into it is wrong for three of them.
What it's used for
- A manufacturer's network. Four IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The netname is three initials followed by the first three numbers of an address. All four blocks carry it unchanged.
- Only one of the four actually begins at that address. The other three start elsewhere in the same range, so for them the netname names a neighbour rather than themselves.
- The four blocks are four different sizes and sit adjacent to one another, which is one allocation carved up and registered four times.
- The holder field ends the company name with one word for a corporate entity; the registrant on every block ends it with a different one.
- Each block lists the company and nothing else. There is no abuse role and no technical contact.
- Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Encoding an address into a netname works exactly once. The moment the block is subdivided, the label stops describing the thing it is attached to, and the registry has no reason to notice.
- Four thousand addresses, three upstreams and nothing in reverse DNS is a company network that faces its own offices. The routing is redundant because the business depends on it; the naming is absent because nobody outside needs to resolve it.
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 4 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16403- Registry name
- BOISE-CASCADE
- Registrant
- Boise Cascade Corporation
- Abuse contact
- Myron_Blaine@bc.com
- Registered
- 2000-04-26
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16403
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS16403
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: 443 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