Autonomous system
AS17718 TWNIC-AS Taiwan Network Information Center
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
TWNIC
registry infrastructure taiwan
TWNIC-AS is operated by TWNIC (Taiwan Network Information Center).
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
TWNIC-TWwith registrantIRT-TWNIC-TW, indicating internal registry infrastructure. - The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix (
150.242.102.0/24) totaling 256 addresses, with 6 observed neighbours, suggesting a small-scale operational footprint rather than large-scale transit or access.
Notable
- The registrant
TWNIC Whois Administratoraligns directly with the AS holder, confirming consistent ownership. - The inventory consists of a single /24 block, which is a minimal allocation typical for administrative or registry-specific services rather than customer-facing networks.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Taipei Internet Exchange (TPIX) | Taipei, Taiwan | 203.163.222.171 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TW | Taiwan, Province of China | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS17718- Registry name
- TWNIC
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@twnic.tw
- Registered
- 2022-12-20
- Last changed
- 2025-11-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS17718
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS17718
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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