Autonomous system
AS16608 KENTEC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kentec Communications
isp hosting business
Some reverse names carry a label announcing that they are reverse names.
What it's used for
- A regional provider's network. Five IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from the United States, six thousand one hundred and forty-four addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Four blocks are the company's, all under one netname: three initials and the word for a network. Each lists an operations contact and an abuse contact named after the company.
- The fifth block belongs to a differently named company, under a netname of a surname and the word one.
- Fourteen of fifteen queried addresses answered, across three domains. Three are on the company's own domain and insert a five-letter label meaning a reverse address record between the address and the domain.
- Nine more are the address with hyphens on a second, unrelated brand's domain, with no such label.
- The last two, on the fifth block, are the word for an address and the final part of the address, on that other company's domain.
Interesting
- A label inside a reverse name saying that it is a reverse name is redundant to the protocol and useful to a person reading a log. It marks these as generated addresses rather than named machines, which is what a support desk wants to know at a glance.
- Three naming schemes on one small network, each internally consistent, is the fingerprint of three different zone generators. Nothing here has been unified, and nothing needs to be.
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 2026-10-30, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 6.40K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16608- Registry name
- KENTEC
- Registrant
- Kentec Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kci.net
- Registered
- 2000-05-25
- Last changed
- 2013-12-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 22 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS16608
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 27 naming AS16608
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-30. 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