AS12697 — PARSUN-SINDAD-ANCHOR

AS12697 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An entire autonomous system existing to announce one /24 through one neighbour.

What it's used for

• Announcing a single network in Iran. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 46.249.96.0/24, netname TOSE-MASIRYABI-SHABAKE-ARIA.
• The AS handle is PARSUN-SINDAD-ANCHOR, naming two organisations that appear nowhere in the registry record.
• First observed in the routing archive in October 2015.
• Three sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.

Interesting

• 256 addresses and one upstream is the smallest configuration that still requires an AS number at all. A network this size could be announced by its provider for free; getting its own number costs paperwork and an annual fee, and buys exactly one thing, which is the ability to change provider without renumbering.
• The handle names two companies and the word anchor. An anchor announcement is one made to hold a prefix visible in the routing table, often so that more specific routes elsewhere have something to fall back to. Reading it that way is a guess; what the record shows for certain is that three names attach to 256 addresses.
• October 2015 is a real first-seen date rather than the floor of the archive, so this network genuinely appeared then. That places it among the youngest entries in this stretch of the number range, on an AS number issued long before it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 46.249.96.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS48551 Sindad Network Technology PJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS48551 Sindad Network Technology PJSC