AS14188 — ASHLANDFIBERNETWORK

Network type: residential

AS14188 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two blocks, two netnames, and reverse names that pad every part of the address to three figures.

What it's used for

• A community fibre network. 10,240 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 66.241.64.0/19 carries the netname ASHLANDFN-1 and 207.55.232.0/21 carries ASHLANDFN-2, both registered to Ashland Fiber Network, the second with an AFN Systems Staff contact.
• Two of six sampled addresses returned a name: 066-241-087-254.dynamic.ashlandfiber.net and 207-055-237-254.ashlandfiber.net.

Interesting

• Padding each part of the address to three digits makes every hostname the same length, which sorts correctly in a plain text listing. Without the padding, an address ending in nine sorts after one ending in eighty-seven, and anyone who has read a long log file knows why that matters.
• One of the two names carries a dynamic label and the other does not, so the zone distinguishes addresses handed out automatically from those assigned to a customer. That single word is the difference between a residential connection and something a business paid extra for.
• Two netnames numbered one and two, on the only two blocks the network holds, is the tidiest possible registry record. Nothing has been transferred, leased or inherited.
• A network named for the town it serves, running its own fibre and its own AS with two upstreams, is a community deciding to be its own carrier rather than waiting for one to arrive.

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

Announced prefixes

• 66.241.64.0/19
• 207.55.232.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS25899 LS Networks
• AS3701 University of Oregon

Adjacent networks

• AS25899 LS Networks
• AS3701 University of Oregon

Internet exchanges

• Northwest Access Exchange — Portland, United States