AS14272 — MCPC-ASN

AS14272 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A netname that marks the block as the public one, implying everything else is not.

What it's used for

• An IT services and equipment company's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 198.178.232.0/24, carrying the netname MCPC-PUBLIC-1 and registered to the company.
• That netname states which side of the network the block sits on and adds a counter.
• The AS handle is MCPC-ASN, the company's initials with the record type appended.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Labelling a block public is only worth doing when there is a private counterpart to distinguish it from, so the netname quietly documents an internal numbering scheme that is not visible here. The counter says this is the first of them.
• Both identifiers append a category rather than a location or a function, which is a filing habit: the name says what kind of record this is, not what is inside it.
• A company whose business is deploying and managing other organisations' equipment keeps a small public footprint of its own, which is the shape here.
• Two upstreams, no IPv6, and nothing published in the reverse DNS on the one block that is explicitly meant to be seen from outside.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.178.232.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS19009 OneCleveland
• AS10796 Charter Communications Inc

Adjacent networks

• AS19009 OneCleveland
• AS10796 Charter Communications Inc

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-19009-ASSOCIATED, AS-CHTR-SYNC, AS-EXPEDIENT, AS-HURRICANE, AS-PNAPSFO, AS-RR-BIZ, AS-XO-B.