AS14217 — N6CLOUD-AS

AS14217 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A very large IPv6 allocation against two small IPv4 blocks, one of them anonymous.

What it's used for

• A cloud and hosting provider's network. 512 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The IPv6 announcement is 2602:f96f::/40, an allocation far larger than the IPv4 footprint.
• 64.21.191.0/24 carries the netname N6-CLOUD-01 and is registered to the company.
• 50.114.11.0/24 carries the netname 50-114-11-0-24 and is registered to Private Customer.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The second netname is the block's own address with the separators changed and no prefix at all, which is the barest form of a name a registry will accept. Beside a withheld registrant, it leaves the entry saying nothing whatsoever.
• A single IPv6 block of this size can be divided among a very large number of customers, so the provider's real capacity is in the protocol most of its customers cannot yet reach.
• One upstream for a hosting provider is the fact that matters most here. Every customer on both protocols depends on one link and one relationship.
• The contrast between the two IPv4 records, one named and one anonymous, suggests space acquired from two sources with two different attitudes to disclosure.

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

Announced prefixes

• 50.114.11.0/24
• 64.21.191.0/24
• 2602:f96f::/40

Upstream networks

• AS29909 Metro Optic

Adjacent networks

• AS29909 Metro Optic