Autonomous system
AS9557 PKTELECOM-AS-PK Paknet Limited Merged into PTCL
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Paknet (merged into PTCL)
isp business legacy
AS9557 (PKTELECOM-AS-PK) carries a registry name that tells its own story: "Paknet Limited Merged into PTCL". Paknet was the internet-services subsidiary launched by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the country's incumbent fixed-line operator. The Paknet brand was wound down and absorbed back into PTCL, but the AS and the address space it holds are still announced under the old name.
What it's used for
The evidence shows customer access space inside a much larger incumbent's network. RIS sees 28 IPv4 prefixes carrying 15,616 addresses, with no IPv6. The blocks are a mix of /20s, /21s and a long tail of /24s drawn from Pakistan's 202.70.x, 202.125.x, 203.135.x, 221.120.x and 58.181.x ranges.
Reverse DNS is the most informative part. Addresses resolve under pie.net.pk — PTCL's own domain, tied to the Pakistan Internet Exchange it operates — with hostnames keyed to city points of presence: khi77.pie.net.pk for Karachi and lhr63.pie.net.pk for Lahore. Many of them carry a static. prefix (static.khi77.pie.net.pk, static.lhr63.pie.net.pk), which marks statically-assigned customer addresses rather than a dynamic subscriber pool, and at least one is a switch (sw275b-khi77c1.pie.net.pk).
Only 1 BGP neighbour is observed. That confirms the AS is a stub: it does not reach the internet independently but hangs off PTCL's main network, which supplies its transit.
Notable
- The address space is concentrated on Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan's two largest commercial centres.
- A dissolved brand still visible in a registry record is common; the AS keeps announcing because renumbering customers is expensive.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS17557 | Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited | 1,799 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 24 prefixes · 8.70K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PK | Pakistan | 24 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9557- Registry name
- PKTELECOM-AS-PK
- Registrant
- Pakistan Telecommuication company limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse.irt@ptcl.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-01-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 28 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS9557
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 28 of 28 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,427 naming AS9557
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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