AS12849 — HOTNET-IL HOTmobile

Network type: residential

AS12849 announces 14 IPv4 prefixes covering 419,072 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

419,072 addresses whose reverse names give the city and the cable head-end serving each block.

What it's used for

• An Israeli cable broadband and mobile operator. 419,072 addresses across 72 IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and 50 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The largest blocks are 77.138.0.0/15, 5.29.0.0/16 and 213.57.128.0/17.
• Netnames include HOTNET-BROADBAND, HOTNET-2 and IL-MATAV-20120508.
• Six of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, of the form rehovot-hotnet145-cmts5-77-138-128-0.hotnet.net.il and jerusalem-hotnet145-cmts2-77-139-124-254.hotnet.net.il.
• The AS handle is HOTNET-IL HOTmobile.

Interesting

• The reverse zone is a map. Each name carries a city, then a numbered CMTS, the cable head-end equipment that terminates every modem in a neighbourhood. Anyone can read off which towns this operator serves and roughly how the access network is divided between them.
• The address inside each name is not the address that was queried. 77.138.255.255 answers as a name ending 77-138-252-255. The zone is generated per serving block, so the name identifies the block a subscriber sits behind rather than the individual address, which is exactly the information an operator's own tooling wants.
• IL-MATAV preserves the name of the cable company that existed before consolidation, on a block filed in 2012 — long after the rename. Netnames are chosen by whoever files them, and people reach for the internal name they have always used.
• A /15 and a /16 alongside 70 smaller blocks is what a cable operator's address history looks like: a few large grants from the years of rapid subscriber growth, then a long tail of whatever could be obtained afterwards.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.28.128.0/18
• 5.29.0.0/16
• 37.142.0.0/16
• 77.137.0.0/17
• 77.137.128.0/18
• 77.137.192.0/22
• 77.138.0.0/15
• 89.237.64.0/18
• 141.226.236.0/22
• 185.13.192.0/22
• 185.23.175.0/24
• 194.242.160.0/20
• 212.55.184.0/21
• 213.57.0.0/16
• 2a00:a040::/29

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS8551 Bezeq International Ltd.
• AS5585 Israel Internet Association
• AS12400 Partner Communications Ltd.

Downstream networks

• AS12491 Gilat Telecom Ltd.
• AS25125 One City IT Ltd.
• AS21450 HOT Mobile Ltd.
• AS714 Apple Inc.
• AS4983 Intel Corporation
• AS211057 Astra for Telecommunication and IT Services
• AS30866 ECI Telecom Ltd
• AS41714 SPOT-NET LTD
• AS34380 AMDOCS (ISRAEL) LTD
• AS215886 The Zainco Company for Internet Services and Information Technology JSC
• AS201653 Redge Technologies sp. z o.o.
• AS47956 XFone 018 Ltd
• AS213487 GFIBER INTERNET LTD
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS12257 Dell, Inc.
• AS204160 Mohammed Zahika trading as Bee Fiber.
• AS214991 Killean Jor LTD
• AS198256 Mishkei Shita Communication LTD
• AS211367 Israel Police
• AS3614 Dell, Inc.
• AS50995 IBM Israel-Science and technology Ltd.
• AS214230 Kibbutz Kabri
• AS14148 Ex Libris (USA) Inc
• AS215923 ASSUTA ASHDOD PUBLIC HOSPITAL (R.A)
• AS28783 Netafim LTD

Adjacent networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS12491 Gilat Telecom Ltd.
• AS25125 One City IT Ltd.
• AS21450 HOT Mobile Ltd.
• AS714 Apple Inc.
• AS4983 Intel Corporation
• AS211057 Astra for Telecommunication and IT Services
• AS8551 Bezeq International Ltd.
• AS30866 ECI Telecom Ltd
• AS41714 SPOT-NET LTD
• AS34380 AMDOCS (ISRAEL) LTD
• AS198949 Radware Ltd
• AS215886 The Zainco Company for Internet Services and Information Technology JSC
• AS201653 Redge Technologies sp. z o.o.
• AS47956 XFone 018 Ltd
• AS213487 GFIBER INTERNET LTD
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS12257 Dell, Inc.
• AS214991 Killean Jor LTD
• AS204160 Mohammed Zahika trading as Bee Fiber.
• AS198256 Mishkei Shita Communication LTD
• AS211367 Israel Police
• AS214230 Kibbutz Kabri
• AS14148 Ex Libris (USA) Inc