AS13712 — SMUMN

AS13712 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The netname spells the institution's entire name out in hyphens, at the opposite extreme from the initials most organisations use.

What it's used for

• A private university's network. 4,096 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Both blocks are netname SAINT-MARYS-UNIVERSITY-OF-MINNESOTA, written out in full.
• The two prefixes are 140.190.120.0/21 and 140.190.248.0/21, two pieces of one older range that do not abut.
• First seen in the routing archive on 2008-03-15, an actual date rather than the archive's start.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A netname that spells everything out is legible to a person and immune to the guessing that abbreviations require. It is also thirty-odd characters of a field that most operators treat as a serial number, and it is the rarer choice by a wide margin.
• Two /21s from the same parent range, far apart within it, means the university was assigned pieces of a block it does not hold whole. The gaps between them belong to someone else.
• A campus network announcing no IPv6 and naming nothing in reverse DNS is the common case for higher education in this range, whatever the sector's reputation for being early.

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

Announced prefixes

• 140.190.120.0/21
• 140.190.248.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS14828 Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc
• AS13367 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS14828 Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc
• AS13367 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC