AS15706 — Sudatel

AS15706 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 131,072 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Every block's netname is the registry's own organisation handle, seventy times over.

What it's used for

• The national telecoms operator. Seventy-four IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from Sudan, one hundred and thirty-one thousand addresses, across seven observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Nearly every block carries the same netname, and that netname is the internal handle of the organisation record: a prefix, an abbreviation with a number, and the registry's name.
• One block breaks the pattern with no netname at all and a registrant described only as a contact person.
• The holder string is the company's full name written twice, separated by a spaced hyphen, with the parenthesised long form included both times.
• The seventy-four blocks come from four unrelated ranges and are announced in pieces from /18 down.
• Seven neighbours carry one hundred and thirty-one thousand addresses.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Seven upstreams for a country's incumbent operator is a small number, and it is the number that matters most here. Everything reachable behind this network depends on those seven, and the addresses say nothing about how many of them are usable at once.
• Reusing the organisation handle as the netname on every block means the registry can tell who owns the space and nothing can tell one block from another. The distinguishing field was spent on the fact all of them share.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.209.64.0/18
• 41.218.0.0/18
• 196.1.192.0/18
• 196.202.128.0/19
• 197.252.0.0/16
• 212.0.128.0/19
• 2001:4228::/32

Upstream networks

• AS39386 Saudi Telecom Company JSC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS204523 Expresso Telecom Group Ltd

Downstream networks

• AS24757 Ethio Telecom
• AS328824 Lulu Tech Advanced Technology
• AS37211 MAX NET FOR INTERNET SERVICES

Adjacent networks

• AS39386 Saudi Telecom Company JSC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS24757 Ethio Telecom
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS204523 Expresso Telecom Group Ltd
• AS328824 Lulu Tech Advanced Technology
• AS37211 MAX NET FOR INTERNET SERVICES

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Djibouti — Djibouti City, Djibouti