AS14397 — AS-DNS

Network type: hosting

AS14397 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,072 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS is filed under a handle that just says AS-DNS.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's network. 3,072 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is AS-DNS, which names neither the company nor anything specific to it.
• Five blocks carry the netname FCHOSTNET-V4; 65.49.128.0/23 carries SCHL-6 instead.
• The lookup for 192.55.95.0/24 failed.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A handle consisting of two generic words is a name chosen before anyone thought about namespaces. It reads as a description of a service rather than an identifier, and it is now permanent, because handles are referenced by other records and cannot be renamed without breaking them.
• The main netname is the company's initials, a word for what the space is, and the protocol version. Marking IPv4 explicitly is a habit that only makes sense once you hold the other kind, and no IPv6 is announced here, so the label is aspirational.
• The outlier netname is four letters and a number that match nothing else in the record. It is an older assignment that arrived with its own label attached.
• One neighbour for a hosting company means a single upstream, which is a business decision about price rather than an oversight, and a customer-visible one the first time that upstream fails.

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

Announced prefixes

• 65.49.128.0/23
• 104.251.115.0/24
• 104.251.116.0/23
• 104.251.118.0/24
• 104.251.121.0/24
• 104.251.124.0/22
• 192.55.95.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS395584 Data Management

Adjacent networks

• AS395584 Data Management