AS16729 — AS16729 - Royal Bank of Canada

AS16729 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One small block, numbered twelfth, on an autonomous system that announces nothing else.

What it's used for

• A bank's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from Canada, no sixth-version space, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle is not a short label at all. It is the two letters for an autonomous system, the number itself, a dash, and then the holder's full four-word name.
• The single block is registered to that same four-word name, under a netname of the bank's three initials, the word for a network, and a two-digit counter.
• That counter reads twelve, on an autonomous system carrying exactly one block.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• One observed neighbour carries the whole announcement.

Interesting

• A netname counter numbers blocks within an organisation, not within an autonomous system. Reaching twelve here means the bank had at least eleven earlier networks registered elsewhere, under other numbers, and this one inherited the next slot in a list that spans the whole institution.
• A handle that restates the number and the full legal name is what a registry writes when nobody supplied a short form. The field exists to be typed, and here it is longer than what it abbreviates.
• One upstream and one small block is a bank compartment: a narrow piece of the estate given its own routing identity so it can be moved or withdrawn without touching anything else.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.96.139.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS16731 Royal Bank of Canada

Adjacent networks

• AS16731 Royal Bank of Canada

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal — Montreal, Canada
• Vancouver Internet Exchange — Vancouver, Canada