AS16300 — INTERTAX-AREA

Network type: residential

AS16300 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two blocks named for a cache, under a brand that belongs to neither the holder nor the cache.

What it's used for

• A cache and edge network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from the Russian Federation, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• Both blocks share one netname: a brand, an underscore, and three letters naming a content provider's cache arrangement. The underscore is unusual on its own; the three letters say what the addresses are for rather than who holds them.
• That brand appears in the AS handle too, paired with a word for a service region, and it matches nothing in the holder field.
• The holder is a large carrier written with its legal form first and its name in quotation marks.
• The only registrant on either block is a contact role naming the carrier and the kind of business it is, so no company object is attached to the addresses at all.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Cache nodes get their own small blocks so the carrier can route them locally and keep the traffic off its transit. The netname is a note to future engineers about what the addresses do, which is more useful than the company name would be.
• A brand in the labels that no longer names anything is what an acquired regional provider leaves behind. The carrier bought the network, kept the addresses, and never rewrote the strings.

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

Announced prefixes

• 93.88.163.0/24
• 93.88.164.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"

Adjacent networks

• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"

Internet exchanges

• GNM Internet Exchange Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands