AS14161 — LANDOLAKES

AS14161 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three of its four blocks are carrier space whose netnames record a merger that happened two carriers ago.

What it's used for

• An agricultural cooperative's corporate network. 5,120 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 173.255.80.0/20 carries the netname LOLV4NET-1 with contacts named Land O'Lakes Internet Abuse and Network Operations.
• The other three carry CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-105 and CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-17, registered to CenturyLink Communications, LLC.
• Six of twelve sampled addresses returned names of the form 63-234-30-64.dia.static.qwest.net.

Interesting

• Those netnames carry the word LEGACY and the name of the acquired carrier, so the record documents its own history: a company bought another, kept the blocks separate, and labelled them so nobody would confuse the two inventories. The reverse names still answer under the older carrier's domain, one more name behind.
• dia and static in a hostname mean a dedicated circuit with fixed addressing, the product a carrier sells to a business that wants its own space and no surprises.
• The cooperative's own netname is an initialism that reads as internet slang by accident, which is the kind of thing nobody notices until the record is public.
• Naming an abuse contact after the company rather than a person is what an organisation does once it has received enough complaints to want a queue instead of an inbox.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.234.30.0/24
• 173.255.80.0/20
• 205.215.210.0/23
• 205.215.212.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS16904 Arvig Enterprises Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS16904 Arvig Enterprises Inc.