AS13418 — WHG-FORBGP-02

AS13418 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle reads like a service provider's work order rather than a name.

What it's used for

• A newspaper company's network. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, 204.106.0.0/24, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is WHG-FORBGP-02, whose leading initials match neither the holder nor the netname.
• The block is netname FWNEWS, registered to the newspaper company.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The handle parses as another organisation's initials, an abbreviated city, the routing protocol, and a sequence number. That is a managed service provider's internal label for the second such customer arrangement it set up, and it became the permanent public identifier for this autonomous system because whoever filed the request pasted in what they were already calling it.
• A newspaper holding its own address space and its own AS number dates from when a paper ran its own classifieds site, its own mail, and its own dial-up service for subscribers. What is left is a /24 and one upstream.
• The netname is the only field here that describes the organisation, which makes it the only one worth reading.

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

Announced prefixes

• 204.106.0.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS6536 CityNet

Adjacent networks

• AS6536 CityNet