AS14327 — PGE-ONLINE

AS14327 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 12,288 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An electric utility with its own place in the routing table, and a handle that remembers when it sold internet access.

What it's used for

• An electric utility's network. 12,288 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 147.79.224.0/19 carries the netname PGNET, registered to Portland General Electric Company with a Network Operation Center contact.
• The lookup for 147.79.176.0/20 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• Both blocks come from 147.79.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The AS handle ends in ONLINE, a suffix that dates itself. Utilities laid fibre alongside their power lines and several of them sold access over it in the years when that was novel; the handle outlived the product.
• Space in the 147 range predates the modern registry system, which fits an organisation that was connected early because it had wires everywhere already.
• Three neighbours on an enterprise network is more than a company needs to reach the internet, and about right for one that must stay reachable during the events that take everybody else offline.
• No reverse names at all, and only one of two blocks resolving in the registry, leave a network that says very little about itself. For an operator of physical infrastructure that is the expected answer, and probably the intended one.

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

Announced prefixes

• 147.79.176.0/20
• 147.79.224.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS33490 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS7385 Allstream Business US, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS33490 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS7385 Allstream Business US, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Northwest Access Exchange — Portland, United States