AS12305 — NORTENET

AS12305 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

NorteNet is a Portuguese internet provider, held by G9, S.A.

What it's used for

• Consumer internet access. A sampled address answers as 55-254.dial.nortenet.pt, the naming a provider applies to a pool of dial-in lines.

Notable

• One prefix, 212.13.32.0/19, 8,192 addresses, registered as PT-NORTENET-990302 — a date stamp putting the assignment at the 2nd of March 1999.
• Seven observed BGP neighbours. For a network with a single /19 that is a lot of separate places to hand traffic to.
• No IPv6 announced.

Interesting

• The company in the registry is G9, S.A., while the network, the netname and the domain all say NorteNet. The trading name outlives the corporate one in the routing table, because the netname was written once and the reverse DNS is what customers see.
• nortenet.pt reads as "north net", and northern Portugal is where the country's second concentration of population and industry sits, around Porto. Regional providers named after their half of a country were common everywhere in the 1990s, when the economics of leased lines meant a network only reached as far as it could afford to backhaul.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.13.32.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS6424 EDGOO NETWORKS UNIPESSOAL LDA
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Adjacent networks

• AS6424 EDGOO NETWORKS UNIPESSOAL LDA
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• Gigabit Portuguese Internet Exchange Point — Lisbon, Portugal