AS16232 — ASN-TIM Service Provider

AS16232 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,777,664 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One and three-quarter million addresses in nine blocks, and not one of them has a name in reverse DNS.

What it's used for

• A national carrier's network. Ten prefixes announced from Italy, one of them IPv6, one million seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-four addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The nine IPv4 blocks are enormous and few. The largest holds half a million addresses; the smallest is the only one under sixty-five thousand.
• Every block uses the same netname scheme without exception: a country code, three letters for the mobile brand, and a full date. The dates run across twelve years.
• The contacts are identical on all nine: an engineering staff role naming the brand, the parent company, and an abuse role. Nothing varies between registrations.
• The AS handle appends two words describing what the company is, so the field reads as a label and a job title joined together.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Silence in reverse DNS across a million and a half addresses is the normal shape for a mobile network. The addresses are handed to handsets, they change constantly, and a name per address would describe nothing that stays true for an hour.
• Nine registrations for a network this size is unusually tidy. A carrier that got its space in a few large grants never had to stitch together the scattered blocks that fragment its smaller peers.

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

Announced prefixes

• 2.192.0.0/13
• 5.168.0.0/14
• 62.18.0.0/15
• 95.74.0.0/15
• 109.52.0.0/14
• 158.148.0.0/16
• 176.200.0.0/15
• 213.230.128.0/19
• 217.200.0.0/14
• 2a03:8980::/32

Upstream networks

• AS3269 Telecom Italia S.p.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS3269 Telecom Italia S.p.A.