AS37988 — ALPHA-LAYER-AS-AP - Alpha Layer Pty Ltd

AS37988 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,536 addresses and 6 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ALPHA-LAYER-AS-AP is operated by Alpha Layer Pty Ltd, known commercially as FlowVPS.

What it's used for

• The address space carries VPS and hosting infrastructure, evidenced by the registrant FlowVPS and netnames ALPHALAYER-AU and ALPHALAYER-AU-1.
• The AS announces 1536 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 6 IPv6 prefixes, with 25 observed neighbours, indicating a hosting provider with multiple upstream connections.
• Traffic from this AS consists of virtual private server instances and web/API endpoints provided to business customers.

Notable

• Registrants for the primary prefixes (195.114.14.0/23, 195.114.126.0/23, 103.108.228.0/24) list FlowVPS and Alpha Layer Pty Ltd, aligning with the AS holder.
• The prefix 185.199.227.0/24 has a different netname (CID17791) and registrant (Abuse-C Role), suggesting leased or third-party space.
• The inventory includes a mix of /23 and /24 IPv4 blocks and varied IPv6 allocations, including a large /34 block.

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

Announced prefixes

• 103.108.228.0/24
• 185.199.227.0/24
• 195.114.14.0/23
• 195.114.126.0/23
• 2402:7340:1::/48
• 2402:7340:2::/47
• 2402:7340:5::/48
• 2402:7340:4000::/34
• 2402:7340:8000::/37
• 2a14:7581:d000::/40

Upstream networks

• AS136557 Host Universal Pty Ltd
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS212085 Alexander Bruegmann
• AS199840 Pieter Berkel
• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS153725 Tenonet (Hangzhou) Co Ltd
• AS200201 Tomasz Kepczynski
• AS30690 Kazehana Networks LLC
• AS213798 Jude Gabriel Powell
• AS54148 Dynamic Quantum Networks
• AS216107 Noah van der Aa trading as Frumentum Media
• AS199518 Gregory Shapiro
• AS139859 TemasekTech.com
• AS134666 Hoshi Network
• AS207941 JITEN PATHY
• AS214999 Christian Wolfseher
• AS205563 Marc Gomez
• AS210667 Adam Goodenough
• AS200227 Damian Poole
• AS59920 Lusory Limited
• AS208810 David Lee
• AS215467 Skhron OU

Adjacent networks

• AS136557 Host Universal Pty Ltd
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS212085 Alexander Bruegmann
• AS199840 Pieter Berkel
• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS153725 Tenonet (Hangzhou) Co Ltd
• AS200201 Tomasz Kepczynski
• AS30690 Kazehana Networks LLC
• AS213798 Jude Gabriel Powell
• AS54148 Dynamic Quantum Networks
• AS134666 Hoshi Network
• AS139859 TemasekTech.com
• AS199518 Gregory Shapiro
• AS207941 JITEN PATHY
• AS216107 Noah van der Aa trading as Frumentum Media
• AS214999 Christian Wolfseher
• AS205563 Marc Gomez
• AS210667 Adam Goodenough
• AS200227 Damian Poole
• AS59920 Lusory Limited
• AS208810 David Lee
• AS215467 Skhron OU

Routing security

• RPKI: 13 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 16 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 14 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-COLO-AU-TRANSIT, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-KAZEHANA-UPSTREAMS, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-OPTUS, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS, AS-VIRTUTEL-TRANSIT, AS199518:AS-UPSTREAM, AS200201:AS-UPSTREAMS, AS205378:AS-UPSTREAMS, AS208810:AS-UPSTREAMS, AS212085:AS-UPSTREAMS, AS37988:AS-ALPHALAYER, AS54148:AS-UPSTREAMS.