AS16344 — IS-BG-AS Bulgarian ISP

AS16344 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle stops naming the company halfway through and starts describing it instead.

What it's used for

• A provider's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Bulgaria, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through forty-one observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle begins with two initials, a country code and the letters for an autonomous system, then adds two more words that say what the company does rather than what it is called.
• The holder field gives the company's full registered name, which is two ordinary nouns and a legal form, and shares only its initials with the handle.
• The netname is a country code, the first of those two nouns, and a full date. The second noun did not fit and was dropped.
• The block lists the company and a communications department. There is no abuse role.
• Forty-one observed neighbours on four thousand addresses is a peering count an order of magnitude larger than the network it serves.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A company named after two generic nouns is unsearchable by design, and every field in the record works around that: the handle adds a description, the netname keeps half, and the holder keeps all of it and is no clearer for it.
• A small network with many peers is the shape of somebody who interconnects for a living. The addresses are almost incidental to what the autonomous system is for.

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

Announced prefixes

• 217.145.160.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS8866 Vivacom Bulgaria EAD
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS41313 "NOVATEL" EOOD
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc

Downstream networks

• AS12564 Council of Ministers
• AS31369 National Social Security Institute

Adjacent networks

• AS8866 Vivacom Bulgaria EAD
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS12564 Council of Ministers
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS41313 "NOVATEL" EOOD
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS31369 National Social Security Institute

Internet exchanges

• NetIX — Sofia, Bulgaria
• Bulgarian Internet eXchange — Sofia, Bulgaria