AS14174 — NCKCN

AS14174 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 17,664 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three registrants written three different ways: one in capitals, one entirely in lower case, and a netname that is a backbone's name rather than anyone's.

What it's used for

• A community network serving a rural region. 17,664 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2605:dc40::/32, with four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Four blocks carry the netname CC-4424, registered to CUNNINGHAM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
• Three carry the netname SPRINTLINK, registered to north central regional planning, written without a single capital letter.
• One more carries SPRINT-C703D4, registered to the same lower-case name.
• Two of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name: ip-199-0-203-254.nckcn.com and ip-205-161-27-254.nckcn.com.

Interesting

• A netname that names a national backbone on a block registered to a regional planning body records where the space came from, not who uses it. The backbone assigned it, the record kept the backbone's label, and the backbone itself is long gone.
• The trailing C703D4 reads as a hexadecimal identifier from the assigning system's own database. It was never meant to be read by anyone outside it, and it has outlived the system.
• A regional planning commission holding address space and a phone company holding the rest is how rural connectivity actually got built: public bodies raised the money, a local operator ran the wires, and both ended up on the same AS.
• The case difference matters more than it looks. Anything grouping networks by registrant name has to normalise case, or these three records become three organisations.

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

Announced prefixes

• 50.20.96.0/20
• 64.239.104.0/22
• 198.59.136.0/22
• 199.0.192.0/20
• 199.3.212.0/24
• 205.161.16.0/20
• 207.12.168.0/21
• 216.120.132.0/22
• 2605:dc40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13329 Kansas Fiber Network, LLC
• AS35986 Vyve Broadband

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13329 Kansas Fiber Network, LLC
• AS35986 Vyve Broadband