AS16058 — Gabon-Telecom

AS16058 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 258,048 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The holder's name is the same long string printed twice, and half the blocks are registered to nobody.

What it's used for

• A national telecommunications operator. Twenty-nine IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 /32 announced from Gabon, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand and forty-eight addresses, across four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The holder field contains the operator's name and the state postal and telecommunications office, separated by a slash, and then the whole thing again after a hyphen.
• Well over half the blocks have the word for not known in both the netname and the registrant field.
• The rest share one netname, a registry organisation handle with mixed capitals in the middle and the regional registry's name on the end.
• The registrant text on those blocks is not consistent either: some spell the office's name with the joining word and some leave it out, on otherwise identical entries.
• Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand addresses behind only four neighbours.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A state post and telecommunications office is the institution most national operators grew out of, and in many countries the two names still appear together in the paperwork long after the commercial arm became a separate company.
• Four neighbours for a quarter of a million addresses describes a country with very few paths in or out. The address count reflects population and ambition; the neighbour count reflects geography and cable landings.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.158.0.0/15
• 41.211.128.0/18
• 154.112.0.0/16
• 154.116.0.0/17
• 154.119.192.0/19
• 217.77.64.0/20
• 2c0f:f640::/32

Upstream networks

• AS36924 GVA Cote d'Ivoire SAS
• AS6713 Office National des Postes et Telecommunications ONPT (Maroc Telecom) / IAM
• AS5511 Orange S.A.

Downstream networks

• AS36924 GVA Cote d'Ivoire SAS

Adjacent networks

• AS36924 GVA Cote d'Ivoire SAS
• AS6713 Office National des Postes et Telecommunications ONPT (Maroc Telecom) / IAM
• AS5511 Orange S.A.