AS8419 — HOTCHILLI

AS8419 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 48,896 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HOTCHILLI is held today by Redcentric Solutions Ltd, a UK managed service provider selling network, cloud and IT services to businesses and public-sector bodies. The handle is a fossil of Hotchilli Internet, the ISP whose network this originally was; Redcentric's main autonomous system is a different one.

What it's used for

• Business connectivity and hosted services for Redcentric's customers. The reverse DNS names the acquired brands rather than the parent: hosts resolve under hotchilli.net (including its RADIUS and back-office machines), dxi-static-NNN-NN.dxi.net on static customer assignments, and access pools under virtelco.com.
• Roughly 49,000 IPv4 addresses across five prefixes, plus a /32 of IPv6.

Notable

• A handle that outlived its holder. Reading the AS name gives you a defunct consumer-ish ISP brand; the operator is an enterprise MSP, and the space is business and managed-service address space, not eyeball broadband.
• Large parts of the range have no reverse DNS at all, and some carries literal no-dns-yet placeholder names, which suggests assignments handed out and never fully populated.
• The AS is essentially single-homed and sits behind Redcentric's main network, which is where the group's transit and peering actually live.

Interesting

• Three separate ISP brands survive in the reverse DNS of one AS. Each acquisition left its naming behind, so the rDNS is a clearer record of UK ISP consolidation than any of the company registries are.

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

Announced prefixes

• 62.89.128.0/20
• 62.89.145.0/24
• 62.89.146.0/23
• 62.89.148.0/22
• 62.89.152.0/21
• 87.243.192.0/18
• 195.248.96.0/19
• 212.95.224.0/19
• 217.72.160.0/19
• 2001:710::/32

Upstream networks

• AS13009 Redcentric Solutions Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS13009 Redcentric Solutions Ltd