AS15703 — TRUESERVER-AS TrueServer BV AS number

Network type: hosting

AS15703 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 67,328 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two addresses answer, and both answers are a single hyphen.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider. Twenty-nine IPv4 prefixes and two IPv6 prefixes announced from the Netherlands, sixty-seven thousand addresses, across one hundred and three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Eighteen addresses were queried and two returned a name. Both names are one hyphen character, with no domain and nothing else.
• Almost every announced block is a piece of one range, and every one of those pieces shares a single netname and a single allocation date.
• That one allocation is split into more than twenty separate announcements, from a /18 down to a /24, with the covering block never announced.
• The AS handle spells out the words for an autonomous system number after the company name, which is the field the handle already is.
• The handle names the former company and the holder field the current one.
• Two IPv6 blocks come from two unrelated ranges.

Interesting

• A reverse record holding one hyphen is a placeholder that escaped. Something required a value, a hyphen was the shortest thing that would pass, and it has been served to the internet ever since.
• Twenty-five routes for one allocation is the cost of announcing pieces separately. Each has to be carried by everyone, and one route would reach the same addresses.
• One hundred and three neighbours for sixty-seven thousand addresses is a hosting network that peers wherever it can rather than buying reach.

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

Announced prefixes

• 80.247.220.0/24
• 87.233.0.0/16
• 193.28.152.0/24
• 194.50.112.0/24
• 213.193.210.0/24
• 213.193.234.0/24
• 213.193.247.0/24
• 213.239.136.0/24
• 2001:9a8::/32
• 2a0b:b600:3000::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS57866 Fusix Networks B.V.
• AS200020 Stichting NBIP-NaWas
• AS24785 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS56655 Gigahost AS
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS8455 atom86 BV
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS57866 Fusix Networks B.V.
• AS200020 Stichting NBIP-NaWas
• AS24785 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS56655 Gigahost AS
• AS8455 atom86 BV
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands