AS10996 — CONCORDE

AS10996 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

CONCORDE is Concorde inc., the Montreal company that trades as VIF Internet, an independent Quebec internet and VoIP provider. The corporate name in the registry says nothing; the reverse DNS on its address space does, and every sampled address answers under vif.net.

What it's used for

The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix, 216.239.64.0/19 (8,192 addresses), and a single IPv6 prefix, 2607:f530::/32. Sampled reverse DNS resolves to per-address names of the form ip216-239-64-5.vif.net — the generic, mechanically-generated pattern an access provider hands out across a subscriber pool rather than the descriptive names an enterprise gives to named servers.

RIS sees roughly a dozen observed neighbours. That is the signature of an eyeball network buying transit and peering locally, not a wholesale carrier: a transit business of any size peers with hundreds to thousands of ASes. A modest, single-prefix v4 footprint with a full /32 of IPv6 and a handful of BGP adjacencies is what a regional access ISP looks like — the address space is where customers live, not a product being resold.

Notable

VIF has served the Quebec market since the mid-1990s as one of the province's long-running independent providers, offering residential access alongside VoIP telephony and business services. The ASN itself is an ARIN-era number from the late 1990s.

Interesting

The prefix 216.239.64.0/19 sits directly beside 216.239.32.0/19, which is Google's — the block that carries its ns.google.com authoritative name servers. The two are unrelated. Adjacency in the address space is an artifact of how a registry hands out consecutive allocations and is never evidence of common ownership.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 216.239.64.0/19
• 2607:f530::/32

Upstream networks

• AS7311 Frontier Networks Inc
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS7311 Frontier Networks Inc
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• CANIX Internet Exchange - Toronto — Toronto, Canada