AS16402 — HKUSA

AS16402 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The netname carries the block's address; the reverse names carry it again, behind the word for a customer.

What it's used for

• A publisher's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The netname is the company's two words run together without a space, then the four numbers of the block's starting address separated by hyphens.
• All three queried addresses answered. Each name is the word for a customer, then those same four numbers hyphenated, on a provider's domain.
• That provider appears nowhere in the registry record. The only trace of who carries this network is in the reverse names.
• The AS handle is the company's initials and a three-letter country abbreviation, which is the only place in the record the country is stated.
• The registrant drops the legal form the holder field spells out.
• The prefix is the smallest routable size and it is the whole holding.

Interesting

• Two independent systems encoded the same address into a name here, once in the registry and once in DNS, and neither knew about the other. That redundancy is why an address can usually be traced even when one of the two records is stale.
• A word meaning customer in every reverse name is the provider labelling its own inventory. It tells you what the relationship is without naming either party.

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

Announced prefixes

• 72.251.179.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS5742 Fidium

Adjacent networks

• AS5742 Fidium