AS16242 — AS-NEXTRA

Network type: hosting

AS16242 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Thirty-nine neighbours on two hundred and fifty-six addresses, and the netname misspells the company.

What it's used for

• A small company's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Switzerland, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through thirty-nine observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The netname is a country code, the company name with its legal suffix run on, and a full date. Two letters in the middle of the name are transposed, so the registry spells the company differently from the holder field directly above it.
• The AS handle names a different company entirely: the letters for an autonomous system and a brand that belongs to a defunct pan-continental provider, with nothing connecting it to the holder.
• The holder field spells its own name with the two-letter substitution used when the alphabet has no room for accents, which the netname copies faithfully and then breaks.
• The single block is registered to the company and an abuse role.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Thirty-nine neighbours for one small block is the most striking number in the record. A network this size peers that widely only if it is present at exchanges, which costs far more than the addresses do.
• A typo in a netname is permanent in a way a typo anywhere else is not. Correcting it means asking the registry to change a key, so the misspelling outlives everyone who noticed it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.247.85.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.
• AS29691 Nine Internet Solutions AG
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS24482 SG.GS

Adjacent networks

• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.
• AS29691 Nine Internet Solutions AG
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9044 BSE Software GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34019 Hivane Association

Internet exchanges

• SwissIX — Zurich, Switzerland