AS12440 — AS12440 HNS-

AS12440 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 37,888 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Europe's arm of a satellite internet operator, registered throughout under a 1990s brand.

What it's used for

• Satellite broadband access. 37,888 addresses in twenty-five IPv4 prefixes, nine IPv6 prefixes, and 158 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Almost every block is netname DE-DIRECPC, and the registry role account is DIRECPC Role. The dates appended run from 980312 to 20150914, with the year format changing along the way.
• 128.65.64.0/20 is the exception: netname ROW44, after the in-flight connectivity company whose service ran over this satellite network.
• Reverse DNS answers under direcpceu.com. Two addresses in the sample answer with their own in-addr.arpa name instead.

Interesting

• The nine IPv6 prefixes tile perfectly. A /36, two /40s, then a /39, /38, /37, /35, /34 and /33 — each doubling — cover 2a0a:1240::/32 end to end with nothing left over. That is what a router does when told to advertise a range that is not a power of two on the boundary it wants.
• DirecPC was the consumer satellite service Hughes sold before HughesNet existed, and the name is now load-bearing: it is the netname, the role account and the DNS zone. Rebrandings reach the website first and the registry last, if ever.

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

Announced prefixes

• 62.128.160.0/19
• 82.214.192.0/18
• 128.65.64.0/20
• 185.117.52.0/22
• 195.238.32.0/19
• 2a0a:1240::/32

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS5400 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS2856 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD

Downstream networks

• AS44795 Hughes Network Systems GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS5400 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS2856 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS44795 Hughes Network Systems GmbH
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• DE-CIX Dusseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany