AS13427 — SOFTCOM
Network type: residential
AS13427 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,888 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
The access technology is written into each hostname, and it changes address by address inside one /24.
What it's used for
- A rural United States internet provider. 5,888 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, eight observed BGP neighbours, and the IPv6 block 2604:8d80::/32.
Notable
- Netnames are an unbroken series, SOFTCOM-IP-ALLOC-1 through SOFTCOM-IP-ALLOC-5, one per block.
- Sampled names carry four different labels: lte, pppoe, dynamic and static, each followed by customer.
- Within 192.96.17.0/24 two addresses are static and a third is pppoe.
- Thirteen of fifteen sampled addresses answered.
Interesting
- The technology label changing inside a single /24 means the zone is generated per subscriber from the provisioning system rather than per block from a template. Whatever the customer is connected by, the record says so, and moving a customer from one technology to another rewrites their name.
- Fixed wireless and telephone-line connections drawn from the same address pool is how a rural provider works. The pool is a pool; the last mile is whatever reaches the house.
- Five allocations numbered in order with no gaps is unusual. Most providers of this size show at least one label from an earlier convention, and this one renamed everything to match.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 137.83.103.0/24
- 173.243.64.0/20
- 192.96.17.0/24
- 192.156.255.0/24
- 198.153.60.0/22
- 2604:8d80::/32
Upstream networks
Adjacent networks
Internet exchanges
- Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) — San Jose, United States
- San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange — San Francisco, United States
BGP / ASN / CIDR
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IPv4
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Unique /24s
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