AS12696 — AXA-TECH Paris

AS12696 announces 18 IPv4 prefixes covering 26,880 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An insurer's IT arm, whose netnames number their pools to match the addresses they hold.

What it's used for

• Corporate networking for an insurance group. 26,368 addresses in nineteen IPv4 prefixes, 43 observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Fifteen of the nineteen prefixes come out of 171.18.0.0, a single legacy block cut into pieces.
• The netnames number their pools: AXA-GO-SEDC-POOL32 holds 171.18.32.0/21, AXA-GO-SEDC-POOL-80 holds 171.18.80.0/22, and AXA-GO-SEDC-SSN-PR-42 holds 171.18.42.0/23.
• Others are AXA-TECH-NET1, AXA-TECH-SEDC-MR and a bare AXA.
• The contact on every record is AXA GO abuse handling.
• Eighteen sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The number at the end of each netname is the third octet of the block it describes, which makes the registry self-indexing: read the name, know the addresses. It works because one team allocated all of it out of one /16, and it would break the moment a block arrived from anywhere else.
• 171.18 is legacy space from the era when a large company could ask for 65,536 addresses and be given them. The pieces announced here add up to well under half of that, so the rest is either used internally or sitting idle behind the aggregate.
• 43 neighbours is a lot for an enterprise. An insurer connects to brokers, banks, clearing systems and its own offices, and each of those relationships is cheaper and more predictable as a direct session than as traffic crossing the public Internet.

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

Announced prefixes

• 163.156.6.0/23
• 171.18.0.0/20
• 171.18.16.0/21
• 171.18.32.0/21
• 171.18.42.0/23
• 171.18.44.0/22
• 171.18.52.0/24
• 171.18.54.0/24
• 171.18.56.0/22
• 171.18.64.0/20
• 171.18.80.0/22
• 171.18.84.0/24
• 171.18.96.0/19
• 171.18.144.0/23
• 193.32.101.0/24
• 194.98.240.0/24
• 195.189.220.0/24
• 212.155.238.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS32787 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3215 Orange S.A.
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS32787 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3215 Orange S.A.
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.

Internet exchanges

• France-IX Paris — Paris, France