Autonomous system
AS16541 ERICKSON-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Erickson Living Management
business enterprise infrastructure
Every address answers with a placeholder that names the machine's own loopback, published to the whole internet.
What it's used for
- A retirement community operator's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- All three queried addresses answered, and all three gave the same name: the word for undefined, the word for a hostname, and then the name a machine uses for itself.
- That last part is the name every computer resolves to its own loopback address. Published in a reverse zone, it points anyone who follows it back at their own machine.
- The netname is four initials, one for each word of the company name, and a numeral one. The AS handle uses only the first word plus two letters for an autonomous system.
- The block is the smallest routable size and it is the whole holding, registered to the company under its full name with its corporate suffix.
Interesting
- A default string in a configuration template, left in place and answered for every address, is a small and permanent piece of evidence that nobody has looked at the reverse zone since it was created. It works, in the sense that queries get an answer.
- The answer is also actively unhelpful: software that trusts reverse names now believes these addresses belong to itself. Most software has learned not to trust them, and this is one of the reasons.
- A name that says undefined is more honest than most placeholders. It declines to guess.
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16541- Registry name
- ERICKSON-AS
- Registrant
- Erickson Living Management, LLC
- Abuse contact
- randy.wooten@erickson.com
- Registered
- 2008-12-10
- Last changed
- 2019-05-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16541
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS16541
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