AS11967 — HOP179

AS11967 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 15 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HOP179 is Hop179, a small operator-friendly connectivity provider that runs as Hop179 OÜ in Estonia and Hop179 LLC in Arizona. Its stated purpose is helping IPv6 enthusiasts and hobby networks get on the internet, and its routing matches that description closely.

What it's used for

• Community IPv6 connectivity, tunnels and small-scale VM hosting. The AS announces only 1,024 IPv4 addresses but 18 IPv6 prefixes — an inverted ratio that almost no commercial network shows, and the clearest possible evidence that IPv6 is the product rather than an afterthought.
• Reverse DNS backs this up: atun.hop179.net on its own space is tunnel infrastructure, and other addresses carry unrelated third-party hostnames, consistent with sub-allocating small blocks and VMs to the hobbyists it serves.

Notable

• 142 observed neighbours against 1,024 IPv4 addresses. Neighbour count is the role signal, and this ratio is emphatically not an eyeball or enterprise network: it is an operator whose value is in peering breadth, present at many exchange points, carrying other people's small networks rather than its own traffic.
• One announced prefix, 44.32.91.0/24, is registered to Amateur Radio Digital Communications — a slice of the ham-radio 44/8 space. That is not a third-party-registrant red flag; it is exactly what an operator serving hobby networks would carry, and it corroborates the rest of the picture.

Interesting

• The IPv4 prefixes span ARIN (130.12, 23.133) and the IPv6 spans both ARIN and RIPE ranges, consistent with the two legal entities on two continents.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.133.172.0/24
• 44.32.91.0/24
• 130.12.194.0/23
• 2602:f72e::/43
• 2602:f72e:80::/48
• 2a06:9801:f9e::/48
• 2a0a:79c0:1301::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:3::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:2c::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:2e::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:3c::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:3e::/47
• 2a0b:4e07:47::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:80::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:b4::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:c1::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:270::/44
• 2a0b:4e07:bec::/47

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS215828 Tizian Maxime Weigt trading as "TMW Global Networks"
• AS213753 InterEdge B.V.
• AS835 GoCodeIT Inc
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS214809 Jere Kiitola trading as Stocade
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS199854 Jens Thies
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS49134 10VPN Research Network LTD
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Downstream networks

• AS201957 Yoel Martinez Villalba
• AS208753 Marco d'Angelo
• AS204921 zhenyun sun
• AS213423 Lukas Hagen
• AS210825 Sebastian Pfeifer
• AS204150 David Zakoucky
• AS215017 EMIRASLAN EMIRASLANOV
• AS209710 SNRD NETWORKS LIMITED
• AS397658 Hop179 LLC
• AS219533 FRANCESCO BIONDI
• AS212386 Pankkih Oy
• AS199243 Alex Smith
• AS198057 Flooyd Telecom LTDA
• AS218839 ZONEK TELECOM LTD
• AS219315 Juan Kevin Fernandez Feijoo
• AS199776 Noah Steiniger trading as Noahprojects
• AS218890 Yuri Systems LLC
• AS207529 NYANLOLI LTD
• AS199746 NextServ LLC
• AS214630 KLab OU
• AS208694 LEON AARON TIEKOETTER
• AS214566 Centerfield Ltd
• AS208505 Michael Vieira
• AS35627 Tom Laermans
• AS206444 Dubravko Vinkovic

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS215828 Tizian Maxime Weigt trading as "TMW Global Networks"
• AS201957 Yoel Martinez Villalba
• AS213753 InterEdge B.V.
• AS208753 Marco d'Angelo
• AS204921 zhenyun sun
• AS213423 Lukas Hagen
• AS215017 EMIRASLAN EMIRASLANOV
• AS210825 Sebastian Pfeifer
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS204150 David Zakoucky
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS209710 SNRD NETWORKS LIMITED
• AS214809 Jere Kiitola trading as Stocade
• AS397658 Hop179 LLC
• AS219533 FRANCESCO BIONDI
• AS212386 Pankkih Oy
• AS199243 Alex Smith
• AS198057 Flooyd Telecom LTDA
• AS218839 ZONEK TELECOM LTD
• AS219315 Juan Kevin Fernandez Feijoo
• AS199776 Noah Steiniger trading as Noahprojects
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS207529 NYANLOLI LTD
• AS218890 Yuri Systems LLC

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Local Internet Exchange Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany
• Local Internet Exchange Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• Ontario Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• Nine IX — Paris, France
• Securebit Internet Exchange Zurich — Zurich, Switzerland
• EuroGIX — Strasbourg, France