AS16686 — EDNS

AS16686 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,584 addresses and 5 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Sixteen reverse names put the whole address, dots and all, inside the hostname.

What it's used for

• A hosting and naming provider's network. Six IPv4 prefixes and five IPv6 prefixes announced from Canada, three thousand five hundred and eighty-four addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is four letters, and five of the six blocks carry it unchanged as their netname.
• Those five list a second contact that is the regional registry's own administrative role rather than anyone at the company.
• The sixth block belongs to a different company entirely, under a netname of an informal word for chatting and the word for a network.
• Sixteen of eighteen queried addresses answered. Fifteen share one template: the address in its normal dotted order, then the word host, then a domain.
• Two domains appear, one for the naming business and one for hosted machines. A single hand-named host breaks the pattern with a role, a counter and a three-letter site code.

Interesting

• Most generated reverse names replace the dots with hyphens, because dots separate labels and an address written with them becomes four labels deep. This scheme keeps them, so each name is a fully nested path ending in the domain.
• Listing the registry's own admin contact on five blocks means the paperwork points back at the body that issued the space rather than at anyone who runs it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.68.192.0/23
• 64.68.196.0/22
• 64.68.200.0/22
• 64.68.204.0/24
• 64.68.206.0/23
• 205.210.42.0/24
• 2620:49:1::/48
• 2620:49:2::/47
• 2620:49:4::/48
• 2620:49:8::/48
• 2620:49:f::/48

Upstream networks

• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS36236 NetActuate, Inc
• AS396998 Path Network, Inc.
• AS53999 Priority Colo Inc

Adjacent networks

• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS36236 NetActuate, Inc
• AS396998 Path Network, Inc.
• AS53999 Priority Colo Inc