AS13657 — E-GATE-COMMUNICATIONS

Network type: residential

AS13657 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 66,048 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Most of the estate is one halving cascade announced piece by piece, under a netname stamped with the month it was issued.

What it's used for

• An internet provider. 66,048 addresses across fourteen IPv4 prefixes, the IPv6 block 2001:4900::/32, and seventeen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Ten prefixes are netname EGATE-201408, carrying a year and month in the field.
• 67.215.192.0/20 is netname EGATE and 216.235.0.0/20 is netname EGAT, the same name cut one letter shorter.
• Registrants append two roles after semicolons, one for abuse and one for the operations centre.
• Two of eighteen sampled addresses answered, as h67-215-199-255.host.egate.net.
• Ten of the prefixes sit in one range and step from a /21 up through two /18s.

Interesting

• A date in a netname is the most useful thing a registry field can carry, because everything else in the object is a name that may already be wrong. This one says when the space was issued and nothing about who uses it.
• The same brand appearing at full length, abbreviated, and abbreviated one letter further is a field with a length limit meeting a name that did not fit, three times, with a different answer each time.
• A single letter in front of a hyphenated address is the shortest possible way to make a hostname legal, since a label cannot start with a digit in every parser that touches it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 67.215.192.0/20
• 104.242.0.0/17
• 104.242.128.0/18
• 104.242.192.0/19
• 204.138.165.0/24
• 209.167.108.0/24
• 216.235.0.0/20
• 2001:4900::/32

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS30414 Digitcom Telecommunications Canada Inc.
• AS16995 Sable Voice Services Inc.
• AS14007 Skyway West
• AS46478 Castor Networks Corporation

Adjacent networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS30414 Digitcom Telecommunications Canada Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS16995 Sable Voice Services Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS14007 Skyway West
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS46478 Castor Networks Corporation
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada