AS15022 — ADEPT-

AS15022 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 16,384 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An organisation handle sitting in the netname field of all seven blocks.

What it's used for

• An internet provider's network. Seven IPv4 blocks and seventeen IPv6 blocks announced from South Africa, with nineteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Every IPv4 block carries the identical netname ORG-AILC1-AFRINIC. That is the shape of a registry organisation identifier, not of a network name, and it names the registry itself at the end.
• The AS handle is ADEPT-, which stops at a separator with nothing after it.
• The holder name ends in two extra letters that look like a branch or site code, and the same string fills both the handle and the name fields.
• The IPv6 announcements include a doubling ladder running /48, /48, /47, /46, /45, /44, /43, /42 out of one parent.
• Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, across two different domains.

Interesting

• The doubling ladder is arithmetic rather than intent. It is what a router emits when asked to advertise a range whose size is not a power of two, so read the whole run as one allocation.
• Two domains are in use for reverse names, one ending in the country's own suffix and one not, with customer equipment on the second. A network answering under two domains has usually merged something, or kept a legacy zone alive alongside a newer one.
• Some reverse names carry a device counter and a customer number in separate labels, so the name identifies the line and the equipment on it, not merely the address.
• Nineteen neighbours is a genuinely well connected regional network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 196.44.32.0/20
• 196.223.64.0/19
• 197.255.144.0/20
• 2001:43d8::/32

Upstream networks

• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Downstream networks

• AS328624 VDB Communications (Pty) Ltd
• AS152324 3XNET Co., Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS328624 VDB Communications (Pty) Ltd
• AS152324 3XNET Co., Ltd.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS21859 Zenlayer Inc

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Cape Town Internet Exchange — Cape Town, South Africa