AS16661 — INFOSECEDU

Network type: hosting

AS16661 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The reverse names live under a domain that is the AS number itself.

What it's used for

• A training network. One IPv4 prefix and one IPv6 prefix announced from the United States, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle runs together a shortened word for information security and a shortened word for education, and the netname repeats it exactly.
• The holder line is a company name that shares no words with either.
• All three queried addresses answered, and every name has four parts: the word for an address with the last part appended, the first three parts of the address in reverse order, a three-letter label for a reverse record, and the domain.
• That domain is the two letters for an autonomous system followed by this number, under a commercial suffix.

Interesting

• Registering a domain named after your AS number and hanging the reverse zone on it means the naming survives any change of company name, brand or business. The number is the one identifier that cannot be taken away.
• Writing the address partly forwards and partly backwards inside one name is unusual. The last part leads, then the first three follow in reverse, which reads as a template built to match the shape of the reverse lookup zone rather than the shape of the address.
• A holder name and a handle that share nothing is a company operating under a working title.

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

Announced prefixes

• 172.83.94.0/24
• 2602:f685::/40

Upstream networks

• AS40676 Psychz Networks

Adjacent networks

• AS40676 Psychz Networks

Internet exchanges

• Local Internet Exchange Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany