AS14230 — INVOLTA - ARK Data Centers LLC

AS14230 announces 67 IPv4 prefixes covering 56,064 addresses and 11 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname is 26 digits long, and the first twelve of them are the block's own address with every octet padded to three figures.

What it's used for

• A data centre operator's network. 55,808 addresses across 74 IPv4 prefixes plus 21 IPv6 prefixes, with 35 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Most blocks carry INVOLTA or a name like INV-209-19-128-0-18, registered to ARK Data Centers LLC.
• 69.212.176.0/21 carries the netname SBC06921217600021040303144637, registered to Delta Media Grp.
• 162.107.224.0/21 carries DCI, registered to Donaldson Company.
• One netname is written INVOLTA-72-50-224-0--20, with two hyphens before the length.
• The IPv6 space descends 2604:9b00::/47, /46, /45, /44, /43, /42, /41 and /40.

Interesting

• Strip SBC from that long netname and the first twelve digits are 069212176000, which is 69.212.176.0 with each octet padded out to three figures. The rest reads as a date and a time. A carrier's provisioning system generated the whole string so it would never collide, and a registry that only requires uniqueness accepted it.
• Two blocks are registered to customers rather than to the operator. A data centre that assigns space to tenants leaves their names in the registry, so the customer list is partly public.
• The doubled hyphen is a template that expected a negative-looking field and got a plain one. Nothing validates netnames, so a formatting slip becomes permanent.
• The IPv6 chain doubles at every step, the same shape a range takes when it is subdivided on paper.

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

Announced prefixes

• 12.199.28.0/24
• 12.221.96.0/24
• 67.221.36.0/23
• 69.194.7.0/24
• 69.212.176.0/21
• 70.60.37.0/24
• 72.50.229.0/24
• 72.50.230.0/23
• 72.50.232.0/23
• 72.50.238.0/23
• 72.50.241.0/24
• 72.50.242.0/23
• 72.50.244.0/22
• 72.50.250.0/23
• 72.50.252.0/22
• 74.112.0.0/23
• 74.112.3.0/24
• 74.112.4.0/22
• 97.64.76.0/24
• 97.64.84.0/24
• 97.64.93.0/24
• 149.138.25.0/24
• 161.199.249.0/24
• 162.107.224.0/21
• 188.172.234.0/24
• 192.12.52.0/24
• 198.167.176.0/23
• 198.167.178.0/24
• 198.167.180.0/22
• 198.167.184.0/21
• 198.181.167.0/24
• 199.104.24.0/24
• 199.104.30.0/23
• 199.114.204.0/22
• 199.255.84.0/22
• 204.152.99.0/24
• 204.228.201.0/24
• 204.228.220.0/22
• 204.228.224.0/24
• 204.228.229.0/24
• 204.228.230.0/24
• 204.228.232.0/24
• 204.228.239.0/24
• 204.228.244.0/24
• 204.228.248.0/24
• 206.80.96.0/23
• 206.80.100.0/22
• 206.80.104.0/21
• 206.80.116.0/23
• 206.80.120.0/22
• 206.80.124.0/23
• 206.80.126.0/24
• 206.207.83.0/24
• 206.207.86.0/24
• 206.207.117.0/24
• 207.70.5.0/24
• 207.70.25.0/24
• 207.70.28.0/22
• 207.70.32.0/24
• 207.70.35.0/24
• 208.73.53.0/24
• 208.73.55.0/24
• 208.74.90.0/23
• 208.79.158.0/24
• 208.81.148.0/22
• 208.101.240.0/20
• 209.19.128.0/18
• 2001:49f8:40a::/48
• 2604:9b00::/38
• 2604:9b00:c00::/38
• 2604:9b00:1802::/48
• 2604:9b00:1806::/48
• 2604:9b00:1808::/48
• 2604:9b00:2800::/48
• 2604:9b00:2802::/48
• 2604:9b00:3c00::/47
• 2604:9b00:4801::/48
• 2607:fb20:10::/48

Upstream networks

• AS19009 OneCleveland
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS5056 Aureon Network Services
• AS12042 Fidium
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS7029 Windstream Communications LLC
• AS393238 ImOn Communications, LLC
• AS16904 Arvig Enterprises Inc.
• AS40264 Charter Communications LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS64289 Macarne.com

Downstream networks

• AS30536 Circle Computer Resources, Inc.
• AS11245 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• AS10668 Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
• AS16403 Boise Cascade Corporation
• AS393939 RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
• AS395155 The J. M. Smucker Co.
• AS25670 thinkCSC
• AS394000 Primenet LLC
• AS30376 College of St. Scholastica
• AS396288 Compunet, Inc.
• AS401220 Edgecity 1343 LLC
• AS33226 Summa Health System
• AS402795 Sharetec,
• AS46833 Sensus USA, Inc.
• AS26264 TVI Inc
• AS54545 Winco Foods LLC
• AS14108 Logivision Technologies
• AS46552 RSM
• AS32086 PACIFICSOURCE HEALTH PLANS
• AS397832 Arconic Inc.
• AS396296 Horizon Credit Union

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS19009 OneCleveland
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS30536 Circle Computer Resources, Inc.
• AS393238 ImOn Communications, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS5056 Aureon Network Services
• AS11245 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• AS12042 Fidium
• AS10668 Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS16403 Boise Cascade Corporation
• AS393939 RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
• AS395155 The J. M. Smucker Co.
• AS25670 thinkCSC
• AS394000 Primenet LLC
• AS30376 College of St. Scholastica
• AS396288 Compunet, Inc.
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS401220 Edgecity 1343 LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS33226 Summa Health System
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS402795 Sharetec,
• AS46833 Sensus USA, Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 70 valid, 0 invalid and 14 not-found announcements; 43 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 61% of announcements registered; 4,689 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-13415-CUSTOMERS, AS-19009-ASSOCIATED, AS-29933-TRANSIT, AS-AUREON, AS-AUREON-TRANSIT, AS-CCF, AS-CCF-TEST, AS-CCI-MN-CUST, AS-CHTR-BB, AS-COMCAST-EDIA, AS-FUSION, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-INVOLTA, AS-PBC-COGENT, AS-PBC-PEER-HE-V4, AS-PBT-CUSTOMERS, AS-PNAPCHG, AS-RR-BIZ, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST, AS-XO-B, AS13415:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS14230:AS-CONE, AS26554:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS393238:AS-INVOLTA.

Internet exchanges

• Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange — Minneapolis, United States
• Quad Cities Internet Exchange — Davenport, United States
• Ohio IX — Columbus, United States
• Pittsburgh Internet Exchange — Pittsburgh, United States