AS16174 — INTUITIV-AS Intuitiv Autonomous System

Network type: hosting

AS16174 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The reverse names answer on a domain that is this network's own AS number.

What it's used for

• A provider. One IPv4 prefix and one IPv6 block announced from the United Kingdom, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, across three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Two of three queried addresses answered, each with the word for a host, the four numbers of the address in hyphens, and a domain that is the two letters for an autonomous system followed by this network's number.
• Registering a domain named after your own AS number is rare. It ties the reverse zone to the routing identifier rather than to any brand, which survives a rename and fails only if the number changes hands.
• The AS handle is the code, then the company name and the words autonomous system spelled out in full, restating what the field already is.
• The netname is the brand alone, with no country code and no date.
• The block is registered to a bare hostmaster contact and an abuse handling role, with the company named in neither.

Interesting

• Anyone reading a log full of these hostnames learns the AS number without a lookup, which is exactly the piece of information a network operator wants first. It is a small courtesy that costs one domain registration a year.
• A provider whose brand appears in the netname but not in either contact has separated its identity from its paperwork, which makes the record harder to follow and the routing easier to trace.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.70.64.0/20
• 2a00:e0c0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS39326 Syntura Group Limited
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth

Adjacent networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS39326 Syntura Group Limited
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom