AS14038 — DRAKE-UNIVERSITY

AS14038 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Eight thousand public addresses whose netname says they sit behind address translation.

What it's used for

• A university's network. 8,192 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, 198.7.192.0/19, plus one IPv6 prefix, 2602:802:4000::/48, with two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The IPv4 block carries the netname DU-CLIENTNAT, registered to Drake University.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The IPv6 prefix comes from the range the registry assigns directly to organisations rather than through a provider.

Interesting

• The netname is a description of purpose, and an unusual one. It marks the whole /19 as the pool that campus clients are translated into: thousands of laptops and phones sharing a much smaller set of public addresses on the way out. Most universities of this vintage handed a routable address to every machine, so this record is a snapshot of the moment that stopped being sensible.
• That also explains the silence on reverse lookups. Addresses that only ever appear as the source of outbound traffic have nothing useful to be called, and naming them individually would suggest a permanence they do not have.
• Two neighbours, one /19 and one /48 is the standard shape of a campus that joined a regional research network and kept a commercial link alongside it. The /48 is a later addition; the /19 predates the university's need to explain itself.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.7.192.0/19
• 2602:802:4000::/48

Upstream networks

• AS30036 Mediacom Communications Corp
• AS15164 Unite Private Networks LLC.

Adjacent networks

• AS30036 Mediacom Communications Corp
• AS15164 Unite Private Networks LLC.