AS14116 — INFB-AS

Network type: hosting

AS14116 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 19,456 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The eight IPv6 prefixes form a doubling chain, each one starting exactly where the last ended and each twice the size.

What it's used for

• A hosting and domain services network. 19,456 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes plus eight IPv6 prefixes, with 14 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Six IPv4 blocks are registered to Internet Names For Business Inc. under netnames MEGA-1, MEGA-3, MEGA-6, MEGA-10 and MEGA-12.
• The seventh, 69.156.240.0/21, carries BELLNEXXIA-11 and is registered to Bell Canada.
• The IPv6 announcements run 2001:1810::/42, 2001:1810:40::/42, 2001:1810:80::/41, 2001:1810:100::/40, 2001:1810:200::/39, 2001:1810:400::/38, 2001:1810:800::/37 and 2001:1810:1000::/36.
• Two of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, and both returned the same one: mailc2-lb2.megarouting.com.

Interesting

• That IPv6 chain is what you get when a range has to be expressed as prefixes but does not start on a boundary large enough to cover it. Two small pieces get it aligned, then each subsequent prefix doubles until the range is exhausted. It is the same arithmetic as writing a number in binary.
• Two addresses in two different IPv4 blocks answering with one hostname means a pair of mail frontends sharing a name across ranges. The name identifies the service; the addresses are interchangeable.
• The gaps in the MEGA numbering are as informative as the numbers. At least a dozen blocks were registered under that scheme and fewer than half are still announced here.
• A transit provider's netname on one block records who assigned it, not who uses it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 66.226.80.0/21
• 69.49.96.0/20
• 69.49.120.0/21
• 69.156.240.0/21
• 209.235.128.0/20
• 216.55.188.0/22
• 216.251.32.0/20
• 2001:1810::/35

Upstream networks

• AS40092 HostPapa
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS19122 eStruxture Data Centers Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS40092 HostPapa
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS19122 eStruxture Data Centers Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• New York International Internet Exchange — New York, United States