AS15846 — COFACE RESEAU LA COFACE

AS15846 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The netname is the registry's own label for a block it is holding, and the registrant is unknown.

What it's used for

• A trade credit insurer's network. One IPv4 /21 announced from France, no IPv6, two thousand and forty-eight addresses, across two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The block's netname is the registry's phrase for an address block under its own management, so the name describes the registry's relationship to the addresses rather than the holder's.
• The registrant is unknown, which leaves a routed block with nobody named as responsible for it.
• The AS handle is the brand, then the word for a network, then a definite article, then the brand again.
• The holder's registered name is five words describing what the company insures, with the brand appearing only as its contraction.
• Two thousand addresses are announced as a single route behind two upstreams.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Blocks fall back to registry management when the holder stops maintaining the record, and the block keeps being announced regardless, because routing and registration are separate systems that nobody reconciles. The addresses work; the paperwork has lapsed.
• Trade credit insurance covers the risk that a customer in another country fails to pay. It is a business built on knowing who is good for the money, which makes an unattributable block on its own network quietly funny.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.56.136.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS8309 SIPARTECH SAS

Adjacent networks

• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS8309 SIPARTECH SAS