Autonomous system
AS16729 AS16729 - Royal Bank of Canada
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada
finance enterprise business
One small block, numbered twelfth, on an autonomous system that announces nothing else.
What it's used for
- A bank's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from Canada, no sixth-version space, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS handle is not a short label at all. It is the two letters for an autonomous system, the number itself, a dash, and then the holder's full four-word name.
- The single block is registered to that same four-word name, under a netname of the bank's three initials, the word for a network, and a two-digit counter.
- That counter reads twelve, on an autonomous system carrying exactly one block.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- One observed neighbour carries the whole announcement.
Interesting
- A netname counter numbers blocks within an organisation, not within an autonomous system. Reaching twelve here means the bank had at least eleven earlier networks registered elsewhere, under other numbers, and this one inherited the next slot in a list that spans the whole institution.
- A handle that restates the number and the full legal name is what a registry writes when nobody supplied a short form. The field exists to be typed, and here it is longer than what it abbreviates.
- One upstream and one small block is a bank compartment: a narrow piece of the estate given its own routing identity so it can be moved or withdrawn without touching anything else.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.33 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.134 |
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.133 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS16731 | Royal Bank of Canada | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16729- Registry name
- AS16729
- Registrant
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Abuse contact
- tnsnoc@rbc.com
- Registered
- 2000-06-05
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Royal Bank of Canada - IX
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS16729- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Website
- https://rbc.com
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS16729
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS16729
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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