AS16212 — LORAL-SKYNET-ASN

AS16212 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,912 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three brands across eleven blocks, and the handle still names the one that came first.

What it's used for

• A satellite communications operator's network. Eleven IPv4 prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, no IPv6, six thousand nine hundred and twelve addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle is a two-word brand and the letters for an autonomous system. The holder field names a different company, and neither word of the handle appears in it.
• Three blocks share a netname built from a country code, a third brand, and a full date, and all three carry the same date.
• Four consecutive blocks share a netname of three letters, the word for a network, and a numeral. No company is registered on any of them, only a contact role and an abuse role.
• Two more use the handle's brand plus the word for infrastructure. One of those lists nothing but an abuse role.
• One block is registered to a differently named company whose suffix is the one used for incorporation outside the country the blocks are announced from.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Eleven blocks behind a single observed neighbour is a network that reaches the internet through one door. For a satellite operator that is the expected shape: the interesting links are the ones that do not run over fibre.
• Every brand in this record survives only in strings. The routing works regardless, which is why nobody has ever had a reason to correct them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 87.237.144.0/21
• 199.101.52.0/22
• 217.68.192.0/21
• 217.68.200.0/22
• 217.68.204.0/23
• 217.68.206.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS8447 A1 Telekom Austria AG

Adjacent networks

• AS8447 A1 Telekom Austria AG