AS16147 — Politie Nederland

AS16147 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A national police force's only block is named after the IT service that runs it, not after the police.

What it's used for

• A national police force's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from the Netherlands, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, across five observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The netname is a country code, three initials belonging to the shared technology organisation that operates police systems, and a registration date from the last days of the year two thousand.
• The force itself is the registrant, with an abuse department listed second under a shortened form of the word for department.
• The AS handle and the holder field are the same two words, with no initials, no hyphen and no letters for an autonomous system, which is rare in a field almost always written as a code.
• Five upstreams for one block is a high count for a single-prefix network of this size.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Police networks are built for availability rather than reach. Five separate connections for four thousand addresses is the same reasoning that puts two radios in every vehicle.
• The split between the force and its technology organisation shows up here exactly as it does in the budget: the mandate belongs to one body and the machines belong to another, and the netname records which of them signed the form.

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

Announced prefixes

• 217.75.32.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS1136 KPN B.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS1136 KPN B.V.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-31576-PEERS, AS-GTTCUST, AS-GTTCUST6, AS1136:AS-KPNNL, AS1200:AS-AMS-IX-PEERS, AS8218:AS-AMSIX-RS.

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands