AS16556 — TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING

Network type: hosting

AS16556 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One address answers with its own digits backwards and a contraction meaning not provisioned.

What it's used for

• A hosting company's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• All three blocks are the company's own, under netnames of its initials, the protocol version, and a counter running one, two, three.
• The counter numbers the blocks, not the version: three acquisitions in order, each recorded as the next.
• Three of nine queried addresses answered, all on a domain that names the company's machines rather than the company.
• Two are gateways with numbers, one per block. The third is the address written backwards, a hyphen, and a contraction meaning not provisioned.
• The country field is missing the small word between the two halves of the country's name.

Interesting

• A reverse zone that says not provisioned is generated from the provisioning system. The answer is accurate on the day it is asked and stays only until somebody assigns the address, which is a promise no hand-written zone makes.
• The gateway names are the useful part: they mark which addresses are routers. That is exactly what an operator wants to know and exactly what a scanner wants to know.
• Four thousand addresses behind one upstream is a hosting company that has never bought a second carrier, through three separate rounds of buying more address space.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.38.76.0/22
• 199.58.176.0/22
• 208.76.80.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS12129 123.Net, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS12129 123.Net, Inc.