AS13997 — RD-CHI-AS - Rapid Displays, Inc

AS13997 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two blocks, two site codes, one of which the AS handle also carries.

What it's used for

• A display manufacturer's network. 512 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The blocks are 198.185.166.0/24, netname RD-UNC-NET, and 198.235.0.0/24, netname RD-CHI-NET.
• Both register to Rapid Displays, Inc.
• The AS handle is RD-CHI-AS, matching the second netname with a different suffix.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The naming scheme has three slots: company initials, a site code, and a suffix saying what kind of object the record is. RD-CHI-NET and RD-CHI-AS are the same site described as a network and as an autonomous system, which is a convention consistent enough to have been written down somewhere inside the company.
• One /24 per site is how a manufacturer with two facilities takes address space: enough to number everything at each location, and no interest in whether the two ranges are adjacent.
• 198.235.0.0/24 sits at the very start of its parent range, the first block anyone was assigned out of it. Position within a range is a rough measure of how early somebody asked.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.235.0.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS30640 Etheric Networks, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS30640 Etheric Networks, Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 4 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-NEXTWEB-16467, AS-PEAK10_CUSTOMERS, AS30640:AS-TRANSIT-CUSTOMERS.