Autonomous system
AS16524 METTEL
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
MetTel
isp telecom transit
Seven of its blocks belong to a federal agency, and those addresses answer on a government domain.
What it's used for
- A business telecommunications provider's network. One hundred and seventy-seven prefixes announced from the United States, thirty-six of them IPv6, one hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy-two addresses, through thirty observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The provider's own blocks carry a netname built from a different brand, the one its reverse zone uses, plus the word for a block and a numeral.
- Seven blocks are registered to a government purchasing agency under its initials, and one more belongs to a large carrier under its standard netname.
- Ten of eighteen queried addresses answered. Three of them are the agency's, named with the word for a host, the address, and the agency's own domain.
- The provider's own answers are inconsistent. Some put the address in four hyphenated parts; others break it as two parts, a dot, then two more, reading as two half-addresses joined by a full stop.
- One answer begins with a device model and a port number before the address, then a city and a state. The rest name the state twice in a row where the city should be.
Interesting
- Carrying a government agency's address space is ordinary contract work, visible in the routing table as an agency's addresses arriving from a commercial provider.
- A reverse zone with three different formats is one built by successive generations of scripts. Each worked, none replaced the others, and the seams are visible to anyone who looks up two addresses.
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
Recorded at 8 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.238.190 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.15 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) | San Jose, United States | 206.223.116.7 |
| DE-CIX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.202.29 |
| Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange | Atlanta, United States | 206.126.110.220 |
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.88 |
| Megaport IX Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.53.170.16 |
| Megaport Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.174.23 |
Transit providers
21 upstream, 7 downstream and 32 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 131 prefixes · 118K addresses IPv6 36 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 167 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16524- Registry name
- METTEL
- Registrant
- MetTel
- Abuse contact
- efox@mettel.net
- Registered
- 2000-05-05
- Last changed
- 2022-01-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- MetTel
- Also known as
- Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-16524- Present at
- 10 exchanges
- Facilities
- 16 facilities
- Website
- http://www.mettel.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 75 valid, 149 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 23 authorising AS16524
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.6% registered · 223 of 224 announcements
- Route objects
- 252 naming AS16524
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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