AS15177 — STARTOUCH-WA1

Network type: residential

AS15177 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Thirteen upstreams, three blocks, and not one name in reverse.

What it's used for

• A regional provider's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, and thirteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• All three blocks carry the same netname and the same registrant, spelled identically, which is rarer in this range than it should be.
• The netname is the company name with nothing appended: no counter, no protocol version, no date.
• The AS handle adds a two-letter code and a counter to that same name.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• Five thousand addresses sit behind thirteen upstreams.

Interesting

• Thirteen neighbours for three blocks is a lot of transit for a small amount of address space, and it is the signature of a provider that peers wherever it has presence rather than buying one or two large circuits. The redundancy is in the paths, not the addresses.
• A registry record with no defects is unusual enough here to note. One netname, one registrant, one spelling: this is what the fields look like when one organisation received all its space at once and never changed hands.
• The empty reverse zone means those five thousand addresses carry no information beyond the routing. For a provider serving businesses, that is a decision with a cost, since mail from these addresses will fail the forward-confirmed check that many receivers apply.

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

Announced prefixes

• 199.102.60.0/22
• 199.191.120.0/21
• 208.74.152.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States