AS13331 — METAPEER-INC

Network type: hosting

AS13331 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,888 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The reverse names carry the subnet mask, and mark broadcast addresses with a two-letter suffix.

What it's used for

• A United States hosting and connectivity provider. 5,888 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and nineteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Sampled names read 162-249-17-0-27.subs.metapeer.com and 208-93-89-0-25.subs.metapeer.com, where the trailing number is the prefix length rather than part of the address.
• 208-93-89-128-25-bc.subs.metapeer.com adds a bc suffix on the last address of its block.
• Two sampled addresses answered in a customer's own domain instead.
• Netnames are METAP-1, METAPEER, NET-207-229-71-0-1, plus CORTLAND-BLK4 and REDWOOD-DESIGN registered to two other companies.

Interesting

• Publishing the mask in the hostname is genuinely useful and almost unheard of. Anyone looking at one address learns how big the block around it is and where its boundaries are, without a registry query. The bc marker then says this particular address is the broadcast address and will not answer like a host.
• The addresses that answer in a customer's own domain sit in a block registered to yet another company, so three parties are visible on one /24: who holds it, who runs it and who uses it.
• METAP-1 on three non-adjacent blocks is a label describing the holder rather than the allocation, and the generated NET- netname beside it shows the registry filling the same field two ways within one network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.249.16.0/22
• 163.237.208.0/24
• 204.15.8.0/21
• 207.229.71.0/24
• 207.229.72.0/22
• 208.93.88.0/22
• 209.222.69.0/24
• 2001:4978:5ff::/48
• 2620:11c:5000::/44

Upstream networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS30081 CacheFly
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS19255 YOUR.ORG, INC.
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS293 ESnet
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS3130 RGnet OU

Adjacent networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS30081 CacheFly
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS19255 YOUR.ORG, INC.
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS293 ESnet

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States