AS13010 — MTS

AS13010 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A 1999 netname written in six digits, from an era when the registry accepted either length.

What it's used for

• A German internet provider. 8,192 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 212.28.96.0/19, netname DE-MTS-990818.
• That date is written 990818, six digits, where almost every other netname in this range uses eight.
• Three addresses were sampled and none answered.

Interesting

• The six-digit form is the same convention that produced two-digit years everywhere else in computing, and it sits in the registry beside eight-digit dates registered months later, such as DE-GENIAS-20000209 on a neighbouring AS. The two forms overlapped rather than replacing one another, so the length of a netname's date says nothing about how old it is. Read the digits.
• A /19 announced whole, with nothing carved out of it, is the tidiest possible routing table entry. Providers usually end up announcing fragments as customers come and go, so an intact aggregate suggests address space still used as one network.
• Two neighbours for 8,192 addresses is a provider buying transit rather than peering.
• The company shares its initials with a much larger carrier elsewhere. The registry has no notion of trademark, so identical short names recur across unrelated holders and countries, which is exactly why the AS number rather than the name is the identifier worth quoting.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.28.96.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS9145 EWE TEL GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS9145 EWE TEL GmbH

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BCC, AS-MTS-BS.