AS16611 — INFINIAHOST

Network type: hosting

AS16611 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname carries an airport code with two of its letters swapped, beside another block that spells it right.

What it's used for

• A hosting network. Ten IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 prefixes announced from the United States, four thousand six hundred and eight addresses, through twelve observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Ten blocks carry eight different netnames and five different registrants: the holder, an exchange point, a company registered under a personal name, another small company, and the regional address registry itself on two blocks.
• Three netnames describe protocol translation rather than ownership: one names a mechanism for reaching IPv4 from IPv6, one spells that direction out with a city, and one spells the opposite direction.
• One of the holder's netnames ends in three letters that are an airport code with the middle two transposed. Another block, registered to the exchange, spells the same code correctly.
• Six of eighteen queried addresses answered, five on a domain matching one netname, one on an unrelated domain entirely.
• Twelve observed neighbours carry four thousand addresses.

Interesting

• Netnames describing translation between address families are unusual and informative. They say the block exists to bridge two protocols, which is a function, not a possession.
• A transposed airport code beside the correct spelling in the same record is a typo with a control group. Nothing checks netnames against anything, so the wrong one works exactly as well as the right one.
• Twelve upstreams for a network this size is an exchange-connected host, buying reach rather than capacity.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.131.184.0/24
• 23.163.136.0/24
• 149.112.101.0/24
• 2602:2de::/36
• 2602:fa07::/48
• 2606:ae40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS21658 Chameleon Labs LLC
• AS30399 Host-Engine.com
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS32097 WholeSale Internet, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS21658 Chameleon Labs LLC
• AS30399 Host-Engine.com
• AS32097 WholeSale Internet, Inc.
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Dallas — Dallas, United States