AS14162 — FHLB-PITT

AS14162 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname is an eighteen digit number, which is a customer record identifier that escaped into public data.

What it's used for

• A wholesale bank's network. 768 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 63.161.8.0/24 carries the netname FON-106751795239492.
• The other two blocks carry SPRINTLINK, a carrier's own name, though all three are registered to the bank.
• The AS handle is FHLB-PITT, initials and a shortened city.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Eighteen digits is far more than any allocation needs. It is the size of a key from an internal billing or provisioning database, pasted into a field meant for a human-readable label. Nobody will ever type it, and it will outlive the system that generated it.
• The two carrier-named blocks show the opposite habit: the same provider labelling space with its own product name and nothing else, so several unrelated customers share one string. One extreme identifies the record uniquely and says nothing; the other says one thing and identifies nothing.
• These banks are wholesale institutions that lend to other lenders rather than to the public, which is why a network this small suffices. There is no retail traffic to carry.
• Two upstreams and nothing published in reverse DNS is the right shape for an institution whose counterparties all reach it by arrangement rather than by search.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.161.8.0/24
• 65.161.24.0/24
• 204.180.133.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 3 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 67% of announcements registered; 2 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BIZNET, AS-DQECUST, AS-DQECUST, AS12025:AS-CUSTOMERS.