AS16593 — FMCIN - First Merchants Corporation

AS16593 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A bank's second block is named for a consumer promotion and registered to a cable company.

What it's used for

• A bank holding company's network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The two blocks come from two different carriers and share nothing.
• The first is registered to the bank itself, under a netname made of a carrier's initials, the word for a network, and the block's address written with hyphens.
• The second is registered to a cable company, under a netname that is a marketing word for getting started and a numeral five.
• The AS handle is three initials for the company and two more letters, with no separator.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• Two observed neighbours carry one block each.

Interesting

• One block from a telephone carrier and one from a cable company is a bank buying its two paths from two industries, so that no single outage upstream takes both. The netnames record the suppliers more clearly than the bank records itself.
• A promotional product name sitting in a registry field is what happens when a carrier's sales catalogue and its address database share a form. The word describes the plan the customer bought, not the customer.
• Silence in reverse DNS on both blocks fits the holder. A bank has no reason to publish names for the addresses its branches leave from.

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

Announced prefixes

• 12.96.97.0/24
• 107.0.98.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS33491 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS33491 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 1 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 50% of announcements registered; 3 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-COMCAST-EDIA.