Autonomous system
AS16701 AS16701 - AGENCIA DE RECAUDACION Y CONTROL ADUANERO (ARCA)
Unclassified ARIN Government
Summary
AGENCIA DE RECAUDACION Y CONTROL ADUANERO (ARCA)
government finance infrastructure
Two addresses answer, and they name two different agencies under the same government suffix.
What it's used for
- A revenue and customs agency's network. Two IPv4 prefixes and two IPv6 prefixes announced from Argentina, five hundred and twelve addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The holder line carries the agency's full name with its four-letter short form in brackets. The AS handle repeats it with the brackets stripped and the words left in place.
- The registrant spells the same name with an accent that neither the holder line nor the handle keeps.
- Both netnames are address ranges written as two addresses with a hyphen between them, each covering exactly its own block and nothing more.
- Two of six queried addresses answered. One is a mail service on the agency's own short-form domain.
- The other is a web services host, with three letters for customs appended, on a different agency's domain under the same government suffix.
Interesting
- Two agency domains answering on one block is a renamed body still serving its old name. Reverse zones outlast reorganisations because changing one breaks whatever was configured against it.
- A netname that matches its block exactly, rather than naming a wider parent range, is the tidier form of this regional convention. It is still a restatement of the prefix, but at least an accurate one.
- A mail service and a web services endpoint on five hundred addresses is a small and chosen public face.
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 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AR | Argentina | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16701- Registry name
- 16701
- Registrant
- AGENCIA DE RECAUDACIÓN Y CONTROL ADUANERO (ARCA)
- Abuse contact
- soc@arca.gob.ar
- Registered
- 2000-05-19
- Last changed
- 2025-11-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- AFIP
- Also known as
- AFIP
- Network type
- Government
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
LACNIC::AS16701:AS-AFIP- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.afip.gob.ar
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
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS16701
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS16701
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: 452 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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