AS15892 — MITTS-NET

AS15892 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,584 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Six of the nine blocks are named prefix7, prefix10, prefix12 and so on, with gaps in the numbering.

What it's used for

• A national government's technology agency. Nine IPv4 prefixes announced from Malta, no IPv6, three thousand five hundred and eighty-four addresses, across three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Three blocks carry proper netnames: a country code, an older acronym for the agency, and a date.
• The other six are the word for a prefix with a number attached, and the numbers skip, so the series they came from had more entries than are announced here.
• Those six list only a security operations role as registrant, with the agency's own name missing.
• The agency's current name and its older acronym both appear, one in the registrant and one in the netnames, so the rename never reached the address records.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Placeholder netnames are what a bulk import leaves behind. Somebody loaded a list of blocks into the registry, numbered them in order, and the descriptive names were only ever filled in for the three that were registered by hand.
• A government network answering nothing in reverse DNS across eighteen addresses is a choice, not an oversight. Reverse names are free reconnaissance, and departments that publish them tend to regret it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 217.30.96.0/22
• 217.30.102.0/24
• 217.30.105.0/24
• 217.30.107.0/24
• 217.71.176.0/24
• 217.71.178.0/23
• 217.71.180.0/24
• 217.71.182.0/24
• 217.71.190.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS12709 Melita Limited
• AS15735 GO p.l.c.

Adjacent networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS12709 Melita Limited
• AS15735 GO p.l.c.