AS199404 — WHG-IN

Network type: hosting

AS199404 announces 11 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,864 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Mumbai point of presence of WHG Hosting Services Ltd, a UK web host trading as hosting.com. It is a good example of a network whose registry country and physical location disagree.

What it's used for

Shared web hosting and VPS for customers in India. The ASN announces 19 IPv4 prefixes, every one of them a /24, totalling 4,864 addresses. No IPv6 is announced.

Notable

• Transit comes from exactly two upstreams, both Indian: AS4755 (Tata Communications) and AS55836 (Reliance Jio). There are no customer ASNs.
• Reverse DNS names the site directly. rt011.bom1.whgi.net is a router on the operator's own infrastructure domain, and customer hosts answer as s4152.bom1.stableserver.net, where bom1 is the Mumbai site code that also appears in the AS name.
• Customer-facing PTRs are shared hosting throughout: 599718-khelobharat-U.securehostdns.com, 730727-naukri.fbsedu.in, unvps0020.spidyhost.com and bare customer domains such as topuplite.com and services.bjainpharma.com.
• Netnames are WHG-BOM1-3 through WHG-BOM1-17, alongside one legacy UK-WHGI-20030620 block.

Interesting

• The address space is assembled from three different regions and operated in a fourth. 190.92.174.0/24 and 190.92.175.0/24 come from LACNIC-delegated ranges, 69.57.172.0/24 and the 198.38.8x blocks from ARIN-delegated ranges, and 103.118.16.0/24 and 103.118.17.0/24 from APNIC.
• Because the holder is registered in Norwich, geolocation that keys on the registry places these addresses in the United Kingdom. The servers answering on them are in Mumbai. Registry country is a statement about paperwork, not about where a packet ends up.
• The legacy netname is dated 2003, which predates the ASN by twenty years.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.57.172.0/24
• 103.118.16.0/23
• 190.92.174.0/23
• 195.250.20.0/23
• 195.250.22.0/24
• 195.250.30.0/23
• 198.38.81.0/24
• 198.38.83.0/24
• 198.38.84.0/22
• 198.38.88.0/23
• 209.42.28.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS4755 TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP
• AS55836 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS

Adjacent networks

• AS4755 TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP
• AS55836 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Mumbai — Mumbai, India