AS13900 — CBN

AS13900 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,632 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Ten prefixes carved from one old block, announced in two clusters with a wide unrouted gap between them.

What it's used for

• A broadcaster's network. 5,632 addresses across ten IPv4 prefixes, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Every prefix sits inside 159.26, and every one is netname CBN, registered to Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.
• One cluster runs 159.26.64.0/22, 159.26.68.0/24 and 159.26.70.0/23.
• The other runs from 159.26.224.0/24 to 159.26.248.0/23.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• One organisation holding this much of a single range, with the same netname on every piece, is a holder from the era when space of this size was handed out whole and the paperwork was done once. Modern assignments arrive in small pieces from a registry that asks what each one is for.
• The space between the two clusters belongs to the same holder and carries no route, so it is held but unrouted. That is the normal end state for a large old allocation: the parts still in service get announced and the rest sits in the registry as an asset.
• Nothing answered a reverse lookup across the sample, which for a network of this size means the address space is used for things that receive connections rather than initiate them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 159.26.64.0/22
• 159.26.68.0/24
• 159.26.70.0/23
• 159.26.224.0/24
• 159.26.227.0/24
• 159.26.228.0/22
• 159.26.232.0/23
• 159.26.239.0/24
• 159.26.240.0/22
• 159.26.248.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS2711 Spirit Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS2711 Spirit Communications