AS15269 — PAI-AS

AS15269 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The registrant names a vulnerability management team, which is rare and useful.

What it's used for

• An energy company's network. A single IPv4 /21 announced from the United States, no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The registrant field lists the company followed by a vulnerability management team after a semicolon, naming a security function rather than an abuse desk or an operations group.
• The netname is three letters of the company and the first two octets of the block.
• The AS handle is three unrelated letters and the abbreviation for autonomous system, matching nothing else in the record.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• Two thousand addresses in one announcement, with no fragmentation at all.

Interesting

• Naming a vulnerability management team in a public registry field is the most directly useful contact in this range. A researcher who finds something has somewhere to send it, and the field makes clear the organisation expects that traffic.
• It is also a disclosure of structure: it says the company runs a dedicated team for this, which narrows how a social engineering attempt would be framed. The trade is worth it, and almost nobody else here makes it.
• One announcement covering the whole block, no borrowed provider space, and an AS handle that predates the company's current name: a network held directly for a long time.

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

Announced prefixes

• 138.32.8.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS7782 Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.
• AS8047 GENERAL COMMUNICATION, INC.

Adjacent networks

• AS7782 Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.
• AS8047 GENERAL COMMUNICATION, INC.