AS16228 — AS-VERKKOPALVELUT

AS16228 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The handle drops the geography and keeps only the last word: network services.

What it's used for

• A regional network services company. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Finland, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The holder field is four words, three of them describing where the company operates and one saying what it does, followed by the company suffix.
• The AS handle keeps the letters for an autonomous system and the last word alone, so the routing label is a generic noun that could belong to any provider anywhere.
• The netname takes the opposite approach: a country code, the initials of all four words, and a full date. Nothing in it is readable, but it is unique.
• The block is registered to the company and to a hostmaster role using the same initials.
• One of three queried addresses answered. The name is the address with hyphens, then a three-letter label, then two letters for the address family, then the domain of the last word of the company name.

Interesting

• Three letters in the middle of a hostname, sitting between the address and the domain, are usually a site: the town or exchange the range is served from. Nothing else in the record explains it, and the operator never needed it to.
• Two labels appear where one would do, one naming the place and one naming the protocol, which is a scheme built to survive a second address family arriving later.

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

Announced prefixes

• 80.246.160.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS47605 FNE-Finland Oy

Adjacent networks

• AS47605 FNE-Finland Oy

Routing security

• RPKI: 1 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-SET-FNE, AS-SET-FNE-V6.