AS16409 — PBW-COMMUNICATIONS

Network type: hosting

AS16409 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,328 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Four blocks, four different registrants, and only one of them is the company that announces them.

What it's used for

• A small provider's network. Five prefixes announced from the United States, one of them IPv6, three thousand five hundred and eighty-four addresses, through sixteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• One block belongs to the holder, with a netname made of its initials, six letters meaning a block of addresses, and a numeral.
• One belongs to a comics distributor. One belongs to a national carrier. One is registered to a private individual.
• Two of those four netnames open with the same three letters, a prefix belonging to neither the holder nor the registrant, which is what an earlier provider's filing system left behind.
• The carrier's netname ends with three numbers from an address, and they are not the three this block starts with.
• Sixteen observed neighbours on three and a half thousand addresses is four times the peering the size would suggest.
• Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A provider this small announcing four unrelated registrations is doing what small providers do: carrying whatever a customer already had. The registry keeps the customer's paperwork and the routing table shows who actually delivers the packets.
• Heavy peering with a light address holding is a network that sells interconnection. The addresses are incidental; the sixteen neighbours are the product.

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

Announced prefixes

• 204.9.92.0/22
• 207.114.24.0/24
• 207.114.32.0/21
• 2604:5e40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS7055 Quantum Internet Services, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS33657 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Adjacent networks

• AS7055 Quantum Internet Services, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS33657 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States