AS13618 — HCEA

AS13618 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An electric cooperative with its own AS number, announcing a /24 that belongs to its transit provider.

What it's used for

• A rural electric cooperative's network. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, 38.19.184.0/24, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The block is netname COGENT-A, registered to a transit provider rather than to the cooperative.
• First seen in the routing archive on 2001-06-21, an actual date rather than the archive's start.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Announcing provider space under your own number is a common halfway arrangement, and it has a catch. The number moves with you and the addresses do not, so the day the transit contract ends, every firewall rule and remote access list that mentions this range has to be rewritten.
• An electric cooperative is member owned and runs its own poles, substations and increasingly its own fibre. Having an AS number at all says the utility decided its connectivity was infrastructure rather than a service it buys, even while the addresses are still rented.
• Being in the routing archive since 2001 makes this one of the earlier utilities to appear there, well before metering and grid telemetry gave them an obvious reason.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.19.184.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS40284 Glenwood Springs Community Broadband Network
• AS33652 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS40284 Glenwood Springs Community Broadband Network
• AS33652 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC