AS12214 — RAPIDDSL--WIRELESS

AS12214 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

RapidDSL & Wireless is a US internet provider offering wired and wireless access, as the name says.

What it's used for

• Subscriber internet access from one block, 69.46.240.0/20, 4,096 addresses, registered under the netname RAPIDDSL--WIRELESS.

Notable

• Three observed BGP neighbours against a single prefix. No IPv6 announced.
• The company name, the AS handle and the netname are all the same string, double hyphen included — the ampersand rendered as -- because registry netnames only take letters, digits and hyphens.

Interesting

• A sampled address, 69.46.251.254, answers as 254-251-46-69.rapiddsl.net. The octets are backwards. Reverse DNS lookups are performed against 254.251.46.69.in-addr.arpa, with the address reversed, and whoever generated these names built them from that string rather than from the address as a person would write it. It is harmless and it works, but it means reading an address out of one of these hostnames requires reversing it in your head.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.46.240.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC