AS16251 — Hogskolan i Gavle

AS16251 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle is the university's name in full, spaces, lowercase preposition and all.

What it's used for

• A university's campus network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from Sweden, no IPv6, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle is not a label at all. It is the institution's name as written on the building: three words, with spaces, including a lowercase preposition in the middle. Nearly every other handle in this range is capitals and hyphens.
• The holder field is the same three words, character for character, so the two fields hold one string.
• Both blocks share a netname of a country code and three letters, which is the only abbreviation anywhere in the record.
• Each block is registered to the university and an abuse role, with nothing else attached.
• The two blocks are the same size and come from different eras of address space, one from an early allocation and one from a later range.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A handle with spaces in it works fine and looks wrong, which is why almost nobody does it. The field has no format rule; the convention is entirely social, and this record is what ignoring it looks like.
• One upstream for a whole campus is the national research network at work. Universities rarely buy transit, because the network they belong to already carries them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 130.243.0.0/20
• 193.11.48.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS1653 Vetenskapsradet / SUNET

Adjacent networks

• AS1653 Vetenskapsradet / SUNET