AS14086 — QIX-YUL-SERVICES

AS14086 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An internet exchange filed under three names at once, with an airport code standing in for the city.

What it's used for

• Services attached to a regional internet exchange. 512 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and seven observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The registry holder names the city, the AS handle uses the city's airport code and a different brand, and the netname CANIX-YUL-SERVICES combines the first brand with the airport code.
• 206.126.112.0/24 is registered to the exchange operator; 38.129.1.0/24 carries COGENT-A and belongs to a carrier.
• The IPv6 announcement is 2620:1f:4000::/48.
• One sampled address answers as net.pch.qix.ca, naming an organisation that runs infrastructure at exchanges worldwide.

Interesting

• Airport codes are the standard shorthand for naming network sites, because every city already has one and nobody argues about it. Here it appears in two fields and the city's actual name in a third, which is three ways of saying the same place.
• The one published hostname points at the organisation that operates route collectors and DNS infrastructure at exchange points, so what answers there is measurement equipment rather than a service of the exchange itself.
• Seven neighbours over a small footprint is the exchange signature: many networks meeting, little address space needed to do it.
• Two brands in the records, one older than the other, mark an exchange that changed operator or name and kept both identities in the registry.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.129.1.0/24
• 206.126.112.0/24
• 2620:1f:4000::/48

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS1403 EBOX

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS1403 EBOX

Routing security

• RPKI: 3 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 3 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 3 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BEANFIELD, AS-GTTCUST, AS-GTTCUST6, AS-METROOPTIC, AS14086:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS29909:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS29909:AS-METROOPTIC, AS55176:AS-MEMBERS.

Internet exchanges

• CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal — Montreal, Canada