AS14368 — BRAZOS-INTERNET

AS14368 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The same netname filed twice, once with a hyphen and once without, and reverse names answered by somebody else's domain.

What it's used for

• A regional ISP's network. 4,352 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 96.46.208.0/20 carries the netname BRAZOS-NET and 137.118.84.0/24 carries BRAZOSNET, both registered to Brazos Internet.
• Three of six sampled addresses returned names of the form 137-118-84-64.neonova.net, under a domain that is neither the company's nor the netname's.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2001-03-29.

Interesting

• Two filings of the same word, differing only by a hyphen, are the clearest possible sign of two separate visits to the registry years apart with no reference to what was done the first time. Nothing checks for this, so nothing prevents it.
• The reverse names belong to a company that sells DNS and support services to small ISPs. Outsourcing the reverse zone is cheap, and the cost is that every subscriber address publicly advertises which vendor the operator buys from. Anyone mapping the small-ISP market can do it from reverse DNS alone.
• Only the older, smaller block has names at all. The newer /20 stays silent, so the outsourced zone covers what was there when the contract was signed and nothing since.
• Two neighbours and two prefixes: a network sized for a river valley and no larger.

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

Announced prefixes

• 96.46.208.0/20
• 137.118.84.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS46849 TEXAS LONE STAR NETWORK, LLC
• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS46849 TEXAS LONE STAR NETWORK, LLC
• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 2 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 4 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 5 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-HURRICANE, AS-PNAPHOU, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS13876:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS46849:AS-PEERS.