AS9293 — HKNET-VIPNET NTT Com Asia Limited

AS9293 announces 25 IPv4 prefixes covering 207,878 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9293 (HKNet-vIPNet) is held by NTT Com Asia Limited, the Hong Kong arm of NTT Communications. The HKNet in the handle is the network's original identity: HKNet was a Hong Kong ISP that NTT Communications bought into from 1999 and took to full ownership by the end of 2001. NTT Com Asia now serves as NTT Communications' East Asia regional base, and this AS is the routing identity that HKNet's network became.

What it's used for

The footprint is substantial: roughly 132 IPv4 prefixes covering about 208,128 addresses, plus one IPv6 /32. The anchor blocks are large — a 110.79.0.0/16, three /17s (218.213.0.0/17, 203.169.128.0/17, 202.67.128.0/17) and a 202.71.192.0/18 — with the rest deaggregated down to /24s. About 31 BGP neighbours are observed, which is a peering edge typical of an established regional provider rather than a wholesale backbone. The reverse DNS shows the network doing two jobs at once. Some sampled addresses carry access-concentrator style PTRs under hknet.com (names like vp192005.kln.uac68.hknet.com, with a Kowloon site code), the fingerprint of a subscriber access network. Another lands on inetgw3.esquel.com — the internet gateway of a Hong Kong manufacturing group, i.e. a corporate customer's edge sitting directly in this space.

Notable

• Card the specific network: NTT's global backbone is a different AS entirely. This is the Hong Kong access and enterprise network, inherited from HKNet.
• The vIPNet suffix on the handle points at HKNet's IP-VPN service line, consistent with the enterprise customer gateways visible in the space.
• Because it mixes access customers and corporate edges in the same blocks, do not assume any given address here is one or the other without checking.

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

Announced prefixes

• 110.79.0.0/16
• 112.73.7.38/32
• 112.73.7.219/32
• 112.73.10.131/32
• 112.73.10.133/32
• 112.73.10.135/32
• 112.73.10.136/32
• 202.67.128.0/21
• 202.67.136.0/22
• 202.67.140.0/23
• 202.67.143.0/24
• 202.67.144.0/20
• 202.67.160.0/19
• 202.67.192.0/18
• 202.71.192.0/18
• 202.87.0.0/22
• 203.131.224.0/20
• 203.169.128.0/17
• 218.213.0.0/17
• 218.213.144.0/20
• 218.213.161.0/24
• 218.213.162.0/23
• 218.213.164.0/22
• 218.213.176.0/23
• 218.213.192.0/18
• 2001:2e0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS9304 HGC Global Communications Limited
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS8359 MTS PJSC
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS38561 NTT Australia Solutions Pty Ltd
• AS9930 TIME dotCom Berhad No. 14, Jalan Majistret U1/26 Hicom Glenmarie Industrial Park 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone

Downstream networks

• AS56227 Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited
• AS202917 Cigna HLA Technology Services Company Ltd
• AS14969 JANE STREET
• AS131224 SGC-Cloud Alliance Limited
• AS10127 CLSA Ltd
• AS4645 HKNet Co. Ltd
• AS45888 Societe Generale
• AS26459 The Trade Desk, Inc.
• AS45217 Tora Trading Services Ltd.
• AS136726 NATIXIS
• AS10098 Towngas Telecommunications Fixed Network Ltd
• AS150666 SMBC Capital Markets (Asia) Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS9304 HGC Global Communications Limited
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS56227 Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS8359 MTS PJSC
• AS202917 Cigna HLA Technology Services Company Ltd
• AS14969 JANE STREET
• AS38561 NTT Australia Solutions Pty Ltd
• AS131224 SGC-Cloud Alliance Limited
• AS7617 CTM (HK) Limited
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS10127 CLSA Ltd
• AS4645 HKNet Co. Ltd
• AS45888 Societe Generale
• AS26459 The Trade Desk, Inc.
• AS45217 Tora Trading Services Ltd.
• AS10098 Towngas Telecommunications Fixed Network Ltd
• AS136726 NATIXIS
• AS150666 SMBC Capital Markets (Asia) Limited
• AS9930 TIME dotCom Berhad No. 14, Jalan Majistret U1/26 Hicom Glenmarie Industrial Park 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone

Internet exchanges

• Hong Kong Internet Exchange — Hong Kong, China