AS15826 — NFRANCE

Network type: hosting

AS15826 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname's date is seven digits long, because a character went missing.

What it's used for

• A hosting company's network. Two IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 /32 announced from France, five thousand one hundred and twenty addresses, across forty-three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Both netnames are a country code, the brand and a date. One date has eight digits and the other has seven, so the shorter one cannot be read as a year, month and day.
• One answering name is the plural word for routers on the company's domain, naming a class of machine rather than a machine.
• The other is the word for a reverse lookup on the same domain, so the label describes the kind of answer being given rather than what is at the address.
• Every block lists the operations centre in capitals, the company in mixed case, and a separate abuse contact.
• Forty-three neighbours is heavy interconnection for five thousand addresses.
• Of six addresses queried, two returned a name.

Interesting

• Nothing validates the shape of a netname, so a date with a digit dropped is stored, indexed and served exactly like a correct one. It has been wrong for over a decade because no software ever needs to read it.
• Naming a host after the lookup that finds it is the placeholder that stuck. It answers the question, admits nothing, and stops anyone asking again.

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

Announced prefixes

• 80.247.224.0/20
• 185.20.84.0/22
• 2a00:1a60::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS9002 RETN Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS9002 RETN Limited

Internet exchanges

• France-IX Paris — Paris, France