AS14054 — -Reserved AS-

Network type: hosting

AS14054 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Seventy-nine BGP neighbours, and a registry handle that reads as reserved.

What it's used for

• A computing company's network. 1,280 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and seventy-nine observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle field reads -Reserved AS- where every other number in this range carries a mnemonic.
• Both IPv4 blocks carry the netname PURPLENET and are registered to the company by name.
• The IPv6 announcement is 2602:f476:1::/48, a single end-site block.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Seventy-nine neighbours against 1,280 addresses is one of the most lopsided ratios in this range. That many relationships is what a network gets by joining internet exchanges and peering with everyone present, which costs almost nothing per additional neighbour and buys direct paths that no amount of address space would.
• The handle reading as reserved means the record for the number itself does not name a holder, even though the address blocks under it do. The two registries of AS numbers and address blocks are maintained separately and can disagree, and here they do.
• A single end-site IPv6 block alongside that peering footprint is a striking mismatch: the network talks to the whole world over IPv4 and offers the smallest standard slice of IPv6 in return.
• Nothing published in reverse DNS keeps the purpose of the addresses to itself.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.152.116.0/24
• 85.155.168.0/22
• 2602:f476:1::/48

Upstream networks

• AS50917 Diederik Focko de Zee
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS56655 Gigahost AS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL

Adjacent networks

• AS50917 Diederik Focko de Zee
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS56655 Gigahost AS
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands