AS16698 — NP-TECH

AS16698 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 11,264 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The reverse names hang off a domain whose own name means reverse DNS.

What it's used for

• A provider's network. Eight IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-four addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Three blocks are registered to a large carrier under its single generic netname.
• Three of the holder's own share one opaque netname: eight characters of letters and digits that decode to nothing visible in the rest of the record.
• The remaining two spell out the word for a network, the block's address, the four letters for classless routing, and the block's size.
• Six of eighteen queried addresses answered, all on a domain that begins with the letters for a reverse record and ends in a brand shared with that opaque netname.
• Each name carries a leading word for an address, the address in dotted order, then a point of presence, sometimes a piece of equipment, a service type and the word for a subscriber.

Interesting

• Two different leading words for the same thing, one an abbreviation and one a longer form, means two generators ran against neighbouring blocks and nobody reconciled them.
• One name labels a cable termination device with the word for a dialled connection. The template outlived the technology, and the field that describes the service now describes the previous one.
• A domain named for the reverse system it serves is honest and slightly circular.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.87.72.0/21
• 38.143.184.0/21
• 38.240.64.0/21
• 66.170.44.0/22
• 66.249.228.0/22
• 66.249.232.0/22
• 199.21.192.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13807 Great Plains Communications LLC
• AS13819 INDIGITAL TELECOM

Downstream networks

• AS14681 Jayco, Inc

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13807 Great Plains Communications LLC
• AS14681 Jayco, Inc
• AS13819 INDIGITAL TELECOM