AS16596 — Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Baja California

AS16596 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Ten announcements, one netname, and it is the whole parent range written out as two addresses.

What it's used for

• A university's network. Ten IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from Mexico, sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is the university's full name, seven words with spaces, in a field that normally holds one token.
• Every block carries the same netname, and it is not a name: it is the first and last address of the entire parent range, with spaces around a hyphen. Ten blocks, one label, none of it specific to any of them.
• The blocks are that parent range cut into six different sizes and announced piece by piece.
• Ten of eighteen queried addresses answered, each built the same way: the university's initials, the last two parts of the address, then a three-letter site code, then the university's own domain.
• Three different site codes appear across the answers, so the naming distinguishes campuses where the registry distinguishes nothing.

Interesting

• The reverse zone carries what the registry lacks. One field says which of three sites an address is at; the registry says only that the university has a range.
• A range this size is an early allocation. Universities were among the first to ask, and they were given space on a scale nobody would grant now.
• Cutting one range into ten announcements is internal routing made visible. Every one of those pieces is carried worldwide so that traffic can be steered between campuses locally.

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

Announced prefixes

• 148.231.0.0/16
• 2801:c0:3::/48

Upstream networks

• AS17072 TOTAL PLAY TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A.P.I. DE C.V.
• AS22884 TOTAL PLAY TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A.P.I. DE C.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS17072 TOTAL PLAY TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A.P.I. DE C.V.
• AS22884 TOTAL PLAY TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A.P.I. DE C.V.