AS15024 — PACKET-WORKS

AS15024 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 9,216 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Six blocks, six different registrants, and not one of them is the holder.

What it's used for

• An internet provider's network. Six IPv4 blocks announced from Canada, no IPv6, and twelve observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• No block in the inventory is registered to the holder of this AS. Two belong to a carrier under the netnames FIBERNETICS-PKT-BLK-1 and FIBERNETICS-PKT-BLK-2, and the other four to a consultancy, an automation company, a Catholic district school board and a financial software firm.
• Those two carrier netnames carry an abbreviation of this holder's name in the middle, so the carrier labelled them for the customer it issued them to.
• Two sampled addresses answered, both in the form pkt.64.235.packetworks.net, which embeds only the first two octets of the address.
• Twelve neighbours is a high count for a network of this size.

Interesting

• This is what a provider's inventory looks like from the registry side rather than the routing side. Every customer that brought its own address space appears as a separate registrant, and the only thing tying them together is that this AS announces all of them.
• The school board and the financial software firm are the useful ones. Those are end organisations rather than networks, and their presence says the operator carries other people's routes rather than only selling addresses out of its own pool.
• Naming a host after two octets rather than four means the reverse name identifies the block, not the address. Every address in a /20 under that scheme answers with the same string.
• Twelve upstreams underneath customer routes is a regional carrier, not a reseller.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.235.96.0/20
• 192.197.189.0/24
• 198.133.174.0/24
• 204.138.2.0/24
• 204.138.113.0/24
• 206.174.176.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS21813 Trillium Health Partners

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS11670 Toronto Internet Exchange Community
• AS21813 Trillium Health Partners
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS19752 Hydro One Telecom Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada