AS14169 — VMI-ASN

AS14169 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One prefix, one neighbour, and three separate role contacts on the single registry record.

What it's used for

• A military college's campus network. 65,536 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, 144.75.0.0/16, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The block carries the netname VMI, registered to Virginia Military Institute.
• The record lists three role contacts: Abuse, HelpDesk and ITAdmin.
• The AS handle is VMI-ASN.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The routing archive has carried it since the archive began.

Interesting

• Three contacts against one prefix is more attention than most networks in this range give their entire estate. Somebody filled the form in properly: a place to report abuse, a place for users, and a place for other network operators. Each is a role rather than a person, so none of them breaks when staff leave.
• The netname is three letters and nothing else. A campus with one block never needs a second name to tell them apart, and the absence of a suffix is itself a sign the record has stayed simple since the day it was made.
• One neighbour underneath a whole college. There is no second provider, so a single circuit failing takes the campus off the internet, which is a cost decision every small institution makes.
• Announced whole, with nothing answering a reverse lookup on any address sampled.

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

Announced prefixes

• 144.75.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS27563 Spirit Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS27563 Spirit Communications