AS16462 — UVIC-AS

AS16462 announces 15 IPv4 prefixes covering 122,112 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Nine netnames are the university's initials followed by the block's own address, which makes the name a duplicate of the field beside it.

What it's used for

• A university's network. Sixteen prefixes announced from Canada, one of them IPv6, one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and twelve addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The largest block's netname is just the four-letter abbreviation. Nine others append the first three parts of the block's own address to it, so each netname restates what the address field already says.
• One block drops the university entirely and uses the word for a network with the address instead. One names a year and calls itself an expansion, the only netname here that records why the block was requested.
• Two blocks are registered to the provincial research network rather than the university, under a netname made of two letters for the province, part of the address, and three letters for a block.
• The largest block's registrant omits the word between the institution and the city, so its owner's name is one word shorter than every other block's.
• Two of eighteen queried addresses answered, both wireless, both naming the last parts of their address with leading zeroes. One adds a label marking it for visitors.

Interesting

• Encoding the address into the netname is common and almost useless: it sorts well and identifies nothing. The one netname here that says what the block was for is worth more than the nine that describe where it sits.

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

Announced prefixes

• 134.87.8.0/21
• 134.87.31.0/24
• 134.87.32.0/19
• 134.87.128.0/18
• 142.104.0.0/16
• 206.12.48.0/24
• 206.12.50.0/24
• 206.12.56.0/21
• 206.12.88.0/21
• 206.12.96.0/21
• 206.12.154.0/23
• 206.12.224.0/19
• 206.87.64.0/21
• 206.87.80.0/20
• 206.87.160.0/19
• 2607:f8f0:c10::/47

Upstream networks

• AS271 BCNET

Adjacent networks

• AS271 BCNET

Routing security

• RPKI: 21 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 22 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 22 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BIGPIPE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS271:AS-BCNET-MEMBERS.