AS16280 — BCRT

AS16280 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Four letters that end in a legal form the company stopped using, and the carrier holds both blocks.

What it's used for

• A chemical manufacturer's network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from Hungary, no IPv6, seven hundred and sixty-eight addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle is four letters: two from the company name and two for the company form it had when the number was issued. The holder field ends in a different, newer form, so the label preserves a legal status the company has since changed.
• Both blocks carry that same four-letter string as their netname, with no country code, no date and nothing to distinguish one from the other.
• Neither block is registered to the manufacturer. Both list the national carrier's registry administrator and an abuse role, so the addresses belong to the provider and the number to the customer.
• The two blocks are adjacent, one twice the size of the other, cut from the same early range.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Legal forms change more often than networks do. A two-letter suffix baked into a handle is a timestamp: it says when the label was written, without any date being recorded anywhere.
• An industrial company with its own number, its provider's addresses and a single upstream has bought exactly one thing: the ability to keep announcing if it ever adds a second provider. Until then the number does nothing the addresses could not.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.149.48.0/23
• 194.149.50.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS5483 Magyar Telekom Plc.

Adjacent networks

• AS5483 Magyar Telekom Plc.