AS16278 — ACCENTURE-LABS

AS16278 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle names a global consultancy; every other field names a hosting provider.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's research network. Three prefixes announced from the Netherlands, one of them IPv6, one thousand two hundred and eighty addresses, through forty observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is a consultancy's brand and the word for laboratories. The holder field is the hosting provider's brand and the same word, followed by the company's legal suffix, so only the second half of the two labels agrees.
• Both IPv4 blocks use the provider's own scheme: a country code, the brand, and a full date, eight years apart.
• Each block lists three contacts: the company, a role with a three-letter suffix that appears in no other field, and an abuse role.
• Forty observed neighbours is a peering count far out of proportion to the size of the network.
• The routing record begins two decades after the number's range was issued, so this number was used for something else, or nothing, for most of its life.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A number that changes hands keeps its old handle until somebody files to change it, and nothing breaks if nobody does. The handle is the last trace of the previous holder and the first thing a reader sees.
• Laboratory networks exist to peer. Forty neighbours on a small block is the whole point: the addresses are there to have somewhere to route, and the connections are the product.

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

Announced prefixes

• 89.30.224.0/22
• 185.74.78.0/24
• 2a02:20b2::/32

Upstream networks

• AS8315 WorldStream B.V.
• AS49981 WorldStream B.V.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM

Adjacent networks

• AS8315 WorldStream B.V.
• AS49981 WorldStream B.V.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM

Routing security

• RPKI: 3 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 3 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 3 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-FRYS-IX-CONNECTED, AS16278:AS-SENTIALABS, AS8315:AS-ACNBB, AS8315:AS-WORLDSTREAM.

Internet exchanges

• The Frys Internet Exchange — Frysian, Netherlands