AS11967 — HOP179 Hop179 OU

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:4e07:2e::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:47::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:80::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:89::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:b4::/48
• 2a0b:4e07:270::/44
• 2a0b:4e07:2b0::/44
• 2a0b:4e07:2d0::/44
• 2a0b:4e07:b20::/44
• 2a14:c380:37::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS835 GoCodeIT Inc
• AS213753 InterEdge B.V.
• AS215828 Tizian Maxime Weigt trading as "TMW Global Networks"
• AS214809 Jere Kiitola trading as Stocade
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS37989 DCS1 Pte. Ltd.
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS49134 10VPN Research Network LTD
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS199854 Jens Thies
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Downstream networks

• AS218343 Mikhail Popov
• AS215017 EMIRASLAN EMIRASLANOV
• AS204921 zhenyun sun
• AS213423 Lukas Hagen
• AS154950 CRAPPLET INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED
• AS208753 Marco d'Angelo
• AS209710 SNRD NETWORKS LIMITED
• AS202934 SINCITY HOSTING LLC
• AS215502 Xing Qingyu
• AS202294 Netlojik Bilgi Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi
• AS212415 Simon Brecht
• AS213586 SM Consulting Services, MB
• AS212332 Agustin Lorenzo Sempere trading as Thinco Telecom
• AS397658 Hop179 LLC
• AS218995 Bobeica Mihaita David
• AS214630 KLab OU
• AS212386 Pankkih Oy
• AS218839 ZONEK TELECOM LTD
• AS213434 Rhys Woolcott
• AS218781 Adrian Grzeca
• AS197324 Vladyslav Koba
• AS208694 LEON AARON TIEKOETTER
• AS201957 Yoel Martinez Villalba
• AS199243 Alex Smith
• AS219533 FRANCESCO BIONDI

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS213753 InterEdge B.V.
• AS215828 Tizian Maxime Weigt trading as "TMW Global Networks"
• AS218343 Mikhail Popov
• AS214809 Jere Kiitola trading as Stocade
• AS215017 EMIRASLAN EMIRASLANOV
• AS197324 Vladyslav Koba
• AS204921 zhenyun sun
• AS202934 SINCITY HOSTING LLC
• AS218995 Bobeica Mihaita David
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS213423 Lukas Hagen
• AS154950 CRAPPLET INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED
• AS208753 Marco d'Angelo
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS209710 SNRD NETWORKS LIMITED
• AS37989 DCS1 Pte. Ltd.
• AS215502 Xing Qingyu
• AS202294 Netlojik Bilgi Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi
• AS212415 Simon Brecht
• AS835 GoCodeIT Inc
• AS213586 SM Consulting Services, MB
• AS212332 Agustin Lorenzo Sempere trading as Thinco Telecom
• AS397658 Hop179 LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 30 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 35 ROAs.
• ASPA: 7 authorised providers.
• IRR: 97% of announcements registered; 48 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-4IXP, AS-4IXP-RS, AS-4IXPV6, AS-BTN-CUSTOMERS, AS-CYBERVERSE-AUTO, AS-EVIX, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-HYTRON, AS-HYTRON, AS-HYTRONNETWORK, AS-IFOG, AS-IFOG, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V6, AS-STEFAN, AS-STEFAN, AS-STEFAN, AS-STEFAN:AS-TRANSIT, AS-STORMWALL-SET, AS-STORMWALL-SET, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST, AS-XENYTH-CUST, AS11967:AS-HOP179, AS13849:AS-TRANSIT.

Internet exchanges

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