AS12824 — HOMEPL-AS

Network type: hosting

AS12824 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 204,032 addresses and 6 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Twelve blocks, six of them a halving ladder growing out of one /17, and a hostname counter that outgrew its zero padding.

What it's used for

• Poland's large web-hosting and domain provider. 204,032 addresses across twelve IPv4 prefixes, nineteen IPv6 prefixes, and four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The largest block is 79.96.0.0/16, then 46.242.128.0/17 and 89.161.128.0/17.
• Six netnames are dated: PL-HOMENET-991123, 20021114, 20060215, 20070827, 20090313, 20100726 and 20101227.
• Five smaller blocks carry the undated netname HOMEPL: 188.128.160.0/19, 188.128.144.0/20, 188.128.136.0/21, 188.128.132.0/22 and 188.128.131.0/24.
• Six of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, all of the form cloudserver099568.home.pl.

Interesting

• Those five 188.128 blocks are a halving ladder. Each begins exactly where the next smaller one ends: a /24, then a /22, a /21, a /20, a /19, and finally a dated /18 at 188.128.192.0. That is what growth looks like when a provider keeps asking for more and the registry keeps doubling the request from the same /17.
• The oldest netname is 991123 with a two-digit year; every later one uses four digits. One holder's own paperwork brackets the registry's format change, which puts it somewhere between November 1999 and November 2002.
• The reverse names are generated from a counter, and one of the six sampled runs to seven digits where the others run to six. The zero padding was sized for a smaller number of machines than the company eventually ran.
• Four neighbours for 204,032 addresses is a hosting network rather than an access network. The traffic leaves through a handful of transit paths because it is all outbound from servers.

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

Announced prefixes

• 46.41.128.0/18
• 46.242.128.0/17
• 62.129.192.0/18
• 79.96.0.0/16
• 89.161.128.0/17
• 188.128.131.0/24
• 188.128.132.0/22
• 188.128.136.0/21
• 188.128.144.0/20
• 188.128.160.0/19
• 188.128.192.0/18
• 212.85.96.0/19
• 2a02:25a8::/29
• 2a02:25af:deae::/47
• 2a02:25af:deb0::/44
• 2a02:25af:dec0::/42
• 2a02:25af:df00::/40
• 2a02:25af:e000::/35

Upstream networks

• AS8560 IONOS SE
• AS12912 T-Mobile Polska S.A.

Downstream networks

• AS215484 home.pl sp. z o.o.

Adjacent networks

• AS8560 IONOS SE
• AS215484 home.pl sp. z o.o.
• AS12912 T-Mobile Polska S.A.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Warsaw — Warsaw, Poland