Autonomous system
AS16548 EAST-PENN-MANUFACTURING
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
East Penn Manufacturing
enterprise business infrastructure
A manufacturer's addresses answer with the naming a cable company gives its residential subscribers.
What it's used for
- A manufacturer's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is the company's full name in capitals joined by hyphens, nothing abbreviated.
- The block is not registered to the company. It belongs to a cable provider, and the netname is that provider's brand with nothing else attached.
- The contact on the block is a title rather than a person: the word for a domain, then the word for a master.
- Two of three queried addresses answered. Each gives the address in normal dotted order, then a label meaning residential, then four letters naming the equipment that terminates subscriber modems, a site code, and the provider's domain.
- The country field in this record is missing the small word between the two halves of the country's name.
Interesting
- A manufacturer with its own AS number, announcing space that belongs to its cable provider, is the shape of a company that wanted routing independence without changing suppliers. The number is theirs; the addresses are borrowed.
- Reverse names saying residential on a company's block are less a mistake than a default. The provider generates one zone for the whole range, and the naming does not know a factory from a house.
- The site code is the most useful thing here for anyone mapping the provider, and the least for anyone looking for the company.
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 2026-10-19, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16548- Registry name
- EAST-PENN-MANUFACTURING
- Registrant
- East Penn Manufacturing
- Abuse contact
- tscaffidi@dekabatteries.com
- Registered
- 2010-07-06
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16548
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 1 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS16548
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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