AS12990 — ONET-PL-AS1 Onet.pl portal network

Network type: hosting

AS12990 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,448 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A news portal whose reverse names map its data centre, its mail system and its VPN gateways.

What it's used for

• The network of a major Polish web portal and its publishing group. 7,680 addresses across 10 IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and ten observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Most blocks carry PL-ONET-20000125, with a newer PL-ONET-20110624 and a RASP-PL.
• Two registry lookups failed, so nothing here describes those blocks' records.
• Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, including 141-105-21-254.pl-krk-ruc-1.compute.dreamlab.cloud, 213-180-149-255.poczta.onet.pl, svpn-lemur-2.net.onet.pl and s8.m8r2.pdmz.onet.pl.

Interesting

• The five reverse names describe four different systems. One names a compute region with a city code and a facility number under a separate cloud domain, one names the mail service, one names a VPN gateway, and two sit under pdmz, the standard abbreviation for a public demilitarised zone where internet-facing servers live. A network diagram is legible from five hostnames.
• svpn-lemur-2 names a gateway after an animal. Choosing a naming theme is one of the oldest habits in system administration, and it survives into infrastructure that is otherwise entirely mechanical, because somebody has to remember which box is which.
• The portal's own brand appears in the handle and the netnames while the registrant is a multinational publishing group. The consumer-facing name outlived several changes of ownership above it, which is the reverse of the usual pattern where the corporate name persists and the brand does not.
• Ten neighbours for a national portal is peering with the networks whose users read it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 141.105.16.0/21
• 195.88.186.0/24
• 213.180.128.0/21
• 213.180.136.0/22
• 213.180.140.0/24
• 213.180.142.0/23
• 213.180.144.0/21
• 213.180.153.0/24
• 2a02:c10::/32

Upstream networks

• AS12741 Netia SA
• AS5617 Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS8323 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS201054 Stowarzyszenie e-Poludnie

Adjacent networks

• AS12741 Netia SA
• AS5617 Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS8323 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS201054 Stowarzyszenie e-Poludnie

Internet exchanges

• TPIX - Internet Exchange — Warsaw, Poland