AS12988 — ASN-PHOENIX # AS-PHOENIX CONVERTED TO ASN-PHOENIX FOR RPSL COMPLIANCE

AS12988 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An AS handle that contains a note explaining why the AS handle was changed.

What it's used for

• The network of an Israeli insurance company. 1,024 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 192.118.36.0/22, netname PHOENIX-NET.
• The AS handle is ASN-PHOENIX # AS-PHOENIX CONVERTED TO ASN-PHOENIX FOR RPSL COMPLIANCE.
• First observed in the routing archive in August 2000.
• Three addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• That handle is a migration note that never got removed. When the registry moved to a formal routing policy language, object names beginning AS- became reserved for a different kind of record, so every conflicting name was mechanically renamed and the reason was appended as a comment. Decades later the comment is still part of the identifier, displayed by every tool that shows this AS.
• It is the most complete accidental documentation in this range: the old name, the new name, and the reason for the change, all preserved because nobody had a reason to tidy it. Registry data keeps its own history in the places where cleanup would have taken effort and produced nothing.
• 192.118 is space allocated to Israeli organisations in the early 1990s, and a /22 has been enough for an insurance company ever since. The visible network of a large financial firm is consistently tiny across every country in this range.
• Three neighbours and nothing answering to a name, which is the pattern this whole sector follows.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.118.36.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS198949 Radware Ltd
• AS1680 Cellcom Fixed Line Communication L.P
• AS12400 Partner Communications Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS198949 Radware Ltd
• AS1680 Cellcom Fixed Line Communication L.P
• AS12400 Partner Communications Ltd.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 3 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 33% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BEZEQINT, AS-GOLDEN, AS-INETGOLD, AS-INTERNET-BINAT, AS-NV, AS-TRIPLEC-SET, AS12400:AS-PARTNERCOM, AS198949:AS-SD, AS3491:AS-CUSTOMERS-EU, AS35280:AS-DEFENSE.