AS16524 — METTEL

AS16524 announces 19 IPv4 prefixes covering 117,760 addresses and 8 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Seven of its blocks belong to a federal agency, and those addresses answer on a government domain.

What it's used for

• A business telecommunications provider's network. One hundred and seventy-seven prefixes announced from the United States, thirty-six of them IPv6, one hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy-two addresses, through thirty observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The provider's own blocks carry a netname built from a different brand, the one its reverse zone uses, plus the word for a block and a numeral.
• Seven blocks are registered to a government purchasing agency under its initials, and one more belongs to a large carrier under its standard netname.
• Ten of eighteen queried addresses answered. Three of them are the agency's, named with the word for a host, the address, and the agency's own domain.
• The provider's own answers are inconsistent. Some put the address in four hyphenated parts; others break it as two parts, a dot, then two more, reading as two half-addresses joined by a full stop.
• One answer begins with a device model and a port number before the address, then a city and a state. The rest name the state twice in a row where the city should be.

Interesting

• Carrying a government agency's address space is ordinary contract work, visible in the routing table as an agency's addresses arriving from a commercial provider.
• A reverse zone with three different formats is one built by successive generations of scripts. Each worked, none replaced the others, and the seams are visible to anyone who looks up two addresses.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.66.48.0/20
• 64.254.59.0/24
• 66.179.76.0/23
• 66.179.78.0/24
• 72.11.192.0/19
• 103.177.88.0/23
• 159.142.0.0/16
• 192.149.11.0/24
• 192.226.64.0/18
• 194.5.135.0/24
• 195.64.98.0/24
• 198.177.227.0/24
• 204.13.218.0/23
• 207.108.184.0/24
• 216.104.48.0/21
• 216.104.56.0/22
• 216.104.60.0/23
• 216.104.62.0/24
• 216.194.0.0/18
• 2604:85c0::/32
• 2607:6540::/32
• 2620:0:150::/48
• 2620:0:154::/48
• 2620:0:156::/48
• 2620:0:15a::/48
• 2620:0:15c::/48
• 2620:0:15e::/48

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS9498 BHARTI Airtel Ltd.
• AS28394 Bicentel SA de CV
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
• AS701 Verizon Business

Downstream networks

• AS26229 U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
• AS12037 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• AS21617 National Archives and Records Administration
• AS36569 Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.
• AS39983 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
• AS40323 Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company
• AS33352 GM Financial
• AS400454 DataRemote, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS26229 U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
• AS12037 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• AS21617 National Archives and Records Administration
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS36569 Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.
• AS9498 BHARTI Airtel Ltd.
• AS40323 Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company
• AS39983 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
• AS33352 GM Financial
• AS400454 DataRemote, Inc.
• AS28394 Bicentel SA de CV
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
• AS701 Verizon Business

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• DE-CIX New York — New York, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) — San Jose, United States
• DE-CIX Dallas — Dallas, United States
• Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange — Atlanta, United States
• DE-CIX Chicago — Chicago, United States
• Megaport IX Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• Megaport Dallas — Dallas, United States