Autonomous system
AS9831 UNIGATE-AS-AP - AS NO. FOR UNIGATE TELECOM INC.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Unigate Telecom
legacy enterprise hosting
AS9831 (UNIGATE-AS-AP) is held by Unigate Telecom Inc., a company based in the Neihu district of Taipei, Taiwan. Despite the "Telecom" in the name and a PeeringDB listing, the routed network behind this AS is tiny.
What it's used for
RIS sees exactly 1 IPv4 prefix — 202.3.191.0/24, 256 addresses — no IPv6, and 1 BGP neighbour. That is the smallest possible viable footprint: one class-C, one path. Sampled reverse DNS is the interesting part: both addresses resolve to -static.chief.net.tw, the naming convention of Chief Telecom, a Taiwanese carrier and data-centre operator. The rDNS shows where the space lives*, not who holds it — the /24 is registered to Unigate but is evidently hosted and reverse-delegated inside Chief Telecom's infrastructure, and the "static" label points at fixed-IP server or leased-line assignments rather than a consumer pool. In practice this AS is a corporate/colocated presence riding on a larger Taiwanese provider, not an independent carrier moving anyone's traffic.
Notable
- The handle oversells it. A single /24 behind a single neighbour is not a telecom network in any operational sense, whatever the registered company name says. This is exactly the case the "the name is evidence in neither direction" rule exists for.
- The
202.3.0.0/16region is early APNIC space, consistent with the low AS number, but the routing tells you nothing about how long the current arrangement has been in place. - No IPv6 is announced.
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 | 203.163.222.1 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS17408 | AboveNet Communications Taiwan | 15 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, 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
AS9831- Registry name
- UNIGATE-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Unigate Telecom Inc.
- Abuse contact
- barry_yeh@chief.com.tw
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-10-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Unigate Telecom
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-UNIGATE-TRANSIT- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.tpix.net.tw
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 · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS9831
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS9831
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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