AS9658 ETPI-IDS-AS-AP Eastern Telecoms Phils., Inc.

AS9658 (ETPI-IDS-AS-AP) is held by Eastern Telecommunications Philippines, Inc., which trades as Eastern Communications — a long-established Philippine telecommunications carrier headquartered in Makati City. It is a facilities-based operator rather than a reseller, and this AS is the one carrying its internet and data-services customers.

What it's used for

This is the largest network in its neighbourhood of the number space, and the only one here with a real carrier signature. RIS sees 596 IPv4 prefixes totalling 287,744 addresses, a single IPv6 /32 (2403:a000::/32), and — the decisive number — 203 observed neighbours. Two hundred peers is not an enterprise or a single-city ISP; it is a network that other networks connect to, and it implies Eastern both peers widely in the Philippines and sells transit downstream.

The reverse DNS shows the customer mix directly. Names under eastern-tele.com split into distinct families: corenet.static (backbone), ids.customers.static and ids.static.service (the "IDS" data-services product that gives the AS its handle), dsl.static (fixed broadband), and unassigned.static for space not yet handed out. Alongside them sit third-party names such as evodsl.com.ph, certaincyber.net and mta.r-svr.net mail hosts — customer-operated services living inside Eastern's space. The mix of static-assigned business circuits, DSL pools and hosted customer systems is what a full-service national carrier looks like.

Notable

• The rDNS records the network's own structure: corenet for infrastructure, ids for data-service customers, dsl for broadband.
• Third-party domains in the PTRs (evodsl.com.ph, certaincyber.net) show what the space carries, not who holds it.