AS17781 — XHNEWS XINHUA NEWS AGENCY

AS17781 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle XHNEWS is held by Xinhua News Agency, the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China.

What it's used for

• The address space carries internal corporate infrastructure for the news agency, as indicated by the consistent XHNEWS netname across all prefixes.
• The AS announces 4096 IPv4 addresses across 12 prefixes with only 3 observed neighbours, a ratio that implies an internal corporate estate with site-by-site segmentation rather than a transit or access network.

Notable

• Registrants are split between IRT-CNNIC-CN for most prefixes and IRT-XHNEWS-CN for 202.84.17.0/24, reflecting the allocation history through the China Internet Network Information Center.
• The inventory consists of a mix of /22, /23, and /24 blocks, with the largest being 203.192.12.0/22, indicating a finely subdivided internal network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 202.84.17.0/24
• 202.123.96.0/24
• 202.123.98.0/24
• 202.123.106.0/24
• 202.123.108.0/24
• 202.123.111.0/24
• 203.192.3.0/24
• 203.192.5.0/24
• 203.192.11.0/24
• 203.192.12.0/22
• 203.192.16.0/24
• 203.192.24.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS4847 China Networks Inter-Exchange
• AS4808 China Unicom Beijing Province Network

Adjacent networks

• AS4847 China Networks Inter-Exchange
• AS4808 China Unicom Beijing Province Network