AS16214 — CERIST

AS16214 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The holder field is one dotted acronym, written twice, joined by a hyphen.

What it's used for

• A national research centre's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Algeria, no IPv6, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The holder field is a six-letter acronym with a full stop after every letter, then a hyphen, then the same acronym again. Nothing distinguishes the two halves.
• The AS handle is that acronym with the stops removed, which is the only form in the record a reader can type without guessing.
• The block's netname is not a name at all. It is an organisation handle: three letters for organisation, an abbreviation of the registrant, a serial number, and the registry's own name appended.
• The registrant is the national academic and research network, spelled out in full, and it is the only contact listed.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Eight thousand addresses in one unbroken block, held since early in the registry's life, is what a country's first allocation looks like. Research networks were usually the ones asking, because they were the ones already connected.
• A netname that is really a database handle happens when the registry generates the record and nobody edits it afterwards. It is accurate, unique, and tells a human nothing.

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

Announced prefixes

• 213.179.160.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS3208 Algerian Academic Research Network

Adjacent networks

• AS3208 Algerian Academic Research Network