AS12678 — BADOO-U

Network type: hosting

AS12678 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,888 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A consumer platform that published its data-centre cities and its service tiers as registry netnames.

What it's used for

• Serving a consumer social platform. 5,888 addresses in eleven IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and 117 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Three blocks carry site codes in their netnames: Public-services-3-prg, Public-services-3-mia and Public-services-3-Mi.
• Four /24s share the netname Public-services-4, and one is Infrastructure-and-partner-services-2.
• The parent allocations are UK-BADOO2-20110513 and UK-BADOO2-20110922.
• The prefixes tile exactly: 31.222.68.0/23 plus 31.222.70.0/24 and 31.222.71.0/24 cover the same space a /22 would.
• Sampled addresses answered as u27.badoo.com, cluster2017.monopost.com and cluster2065.monopost.com.

Interesting

• Internal naming has leaked into the public registry. prg and mia are the airport-style codes for Prague and Miami, so anyone reading the RDAP records learns which cities the platform runs from and which blocks serve which. The company never announced that; the netname field simply inherited whatever the network team already called things.
• The numbered tiers are the same leak in a different form. Public-services-3 and Public-services-4 distinguish two classes of externally reachable address, and Infrastructure-and-partner-services a third. The routing table then splits along exactly those lines, so the service architecture is legible from outside without a single probe.
• 117 neighbours for under six thousand addresses is a very high ratio. Peering that widely is what a latency-sensitive consumer application buys instead of address space: sit one hop from as many networks as will accept the session.

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

Announced prefixes

• 31.222.64.0/20
• 159.253.176.0/22
• 159.253.180.0/23
• 185.153.131.0/24
• 2a00:aea0:100::/40
• 2a00:aea0:200::/40

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• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS42708 Glesys AB
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL

Adjacent networks

• AS19551 Incapsula Inc
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS12859 BIT BV
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS42708 Glesys AB
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• NAP of the Americas — Miami, United States