AS13659 — INTERTECH

AS13659 announces 16 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two routers are named with the systematic syllables chemists use for undiscovered elements, spelling out their own last octet.

What it's used for

• A rural cable and internet operator carrying several smaller companies' space. 5,120 addresses across sixteen IPv4 prefixes, nine observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 24.223.0.128 answers as unbioctium.intertech.net and 24.223.0.255 as bipentpentium.intertech.net.
• Six blocks are netname WINDBREAK- plus a town name, all registered to one cable company.
• Others are registered to a broadband company and to a communications company named after a river, with netnames ACTV-BROADBAND and TR-CABLE-TV.
• 24.223.7.0/24 is netname INTERTECH-BILLNET, and 24.223.3.0/24 is INTERTECH-BTST.
• All eighteen sampled addresses answered, across three different domains.

Interesting

• The systematic scheme names an element by giving each digit its own syllable, so those two hostnames read out as one-two-eight and two-five-five: the last part of each address, spelled in chemistry. Someone named two routers for their own fun and left it in public DNS for twenty years.
• A netname containing the word for billing marks which /24 holds the systems that invoice customers, which is a useful thing to know and an odd thing to publish.
• Six blocks named for six small towns, each its own registry object, is what a cable company looks like when it grew by buying one town at a time.

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

Announced prefixes

• 24.223.0.0/23
• 24.223.3.0/24
• 24.223.7.0/24
• 24.223.9.0/24
• 24.223.10.0/24
• 24.223.31.0/24
• 24.223.49.0/24
• 24.223.50.0/23
• 24.223.52.0/24
• 24.223.54.0/24
• 24.223.63.0/24
• 24.223.64.0/23
• 24.223.69.0/24
• 24.223.72.0/23
• 24.223.77.0/24
• 24.223.79.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS15108 Allo Communications LLC
• AS209 CenturyLink Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS27446 ERC Broadband
• AS13807 Great Plains Communications LLC
• AS16851 NebraskaLink
• AS64213 ERC Broadband
• AS20231 Charter Communications Inc

Adjacent networks

• AS15108 Allo Communications LLC
• AS209 CenturyLink Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS27446 ERC Broadband
• AS13807 Great Plains Communications LLC
• AS16851 NebraskaLink
• AS64213 ERC Broadband
• AS20231 Charter Communications Inc