AS16298 — INTERBOX-AS InterBox Internet

AS16298 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One hundred and fourteen neighbours on five thousand addresses, and one address answers as a publisher's website.

What it's used for

• A provider's network. Three prefixes announced from the Netherlands, one of them IPv6, five thousand one hundred and twenty addresses, through one hundred and fourteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Both IPv4 blocks use a country code, the service brand, and a full date. The two dates are sixteen years apart, and the newer block adds an operations role ahead of the company.
• Three of six queried addresses answered, and all three are different in kind. One is two letters, then the third and fourth octets zero-padded to three digits each, on an unrelated domain.
• The second changes those two letters, keeps the padded octets, and sits on a carrier's name nested beneath the service brand's own domain, so two companies share one name.
• The third is a customer's website: the usual three letters for the web and a publisher's domain, which means one address in the sample is a hosted site rather than a piece of network.
• The AS handle is the brand, the letters for an autonomous system, then the brand again with the word for the service.

Interesting

• More than a hundred neighbours on a network this size is the signature of an exchange-heavy operator. The addresses are almost incidental; the value is in the number of places it can hand traffic over.
• Zero-padding octets to three digits makes hostnames sort correctly as text, which matters to whoever reads the zone file and to nobody else.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.190.232.0/22
• 217.119.0.0/20
• 2a02:29b0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS24785 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS41960 Nextpertise B.V.
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS24785 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS41960 Nextpertise B.V.
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Speed Internet Exchange — Dronten, Netherlands
• LayerSwitch Internet Exchange — The Hague, Netherlands