AS16143 — RADIONET-AS

AS16143 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,376 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three addresses answer reverse DNS with the single word unreachable, and no domain after it.

What it's used for

• A telecoms operator's network. Three IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 block announced from the Russian Federation, five thousand three hundred and seventy-six addresses, across thirty-two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Three of nine queried addresses answered, and every answer is the same bare word meaning that a destination cannot be reached, with nothing appended. It is a status message serving as a hostname.
• The holder name joins the initials of a radio research institute to the trading brand with a hyphen, so the operator's parentage is in its name.
• Two netnames use a third brand entirely, one that appears nowhere else in the record, with dates fourteen years apart.
• The third block carries a different company's name and date and is registered to that company alone, with none of the operator's contacts on it.
• The other two list an operations centre, the company under its legal form, and a role for abuse.

Interesting

• A hostname that is really an error string usually comes from a template that was filled with the wrong variable, and once it is in a zone file nobody notices, because the only people who see it are reading somebody else's logs.
• Research institutes spun off commercial networks in many countries once the state stopped funding them. The initials in front of the brand are the part of the organisation that predates the business.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.81.64.0/22
• 213.139.230.0/24
• 217.76.32.0/20
• 2a03:2b40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS25478 iHome LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS62255 BiMajLink d.o.o.
• AS31133 PJSC MegaFon
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS35598 INETCOM CARRIER LLC
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS43168 Singer-Computer Ltd.
• AS61068 OOO "NECSTEL"
• AS204357 AGR LLC
• AS196667 Apeks Security Ltd
• AS61435 JSC Arkhbum
• AS213403 Kairos Ltd.
• AS49053 LLC Wildberries
• AS51780 FGBU VNIIKR
• AS198261 Ltd InTelCom-TG

Adjacent networks

• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS43168 Singer-Computer Ltd.
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS25478 iHome LLC
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS35598 INETCOM CARRIER LLC
• AS61068 OOO "NECSTEL"
• AS62255 BiMajLink d.o.o.
• AS204357 AGR LLC
• AS196667 Apeks Security Ltd
• AS31133 PJSC MegaFon
• AS61435 JSC Arkhbum
• AS213403 Kairos Ltd.
• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50384 iHome LLC
• AS49053 LLC Wildberries
• AS51780 FGBU VNIIKR
• AS198261 Ltd InTelCom-TG

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia