AS12168 — DANAONMISSIONBAY-GUEST-INTERNET

AS12168 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The guest internet of a San Diego waterfront hotel, run as its own autonomous system.

What it's used for

• Hotel guest access. 512 addresses in one /23 with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle says what it is outright: DANAONMISSIONBAY-GUEST-INTERNET.
• The /23 is registered to the hotel itself under the netname THEDANA, not to a hospitality network vendor.
• One prefix, one neighbour. It has been announcing since the early 2000s.

Interesting

• Almost no hotel has an AS number. Guest wifi is normally a service somebody else operates behind their addresses, and the property never appears in routing data at all. This one holds its own registered space and its own AS, which means that at some point in the early 2000s somebody at a resort on Mission Bay filled in the paperwork for provider-independent addresses in order to give guests internet access.
• 512 addresses for a few hundred rooms is the arithmetic of the era it was set up in, when every device on a network got a public address because there was no reason yet not to. What is unusual is not the size but that it survived: the allocation has outlasted the assumptions that produced it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.122.204.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS14265 TPx Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS14265 TPx Communications