AS14401 — SOLIDNETWORK-AS-02

Network type: hosting

AS14401 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,560 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Its reverse zone labels the network address, the broadcast address and everything between, by name.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's network. 3,072 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes plus 2607:6880::/32 of IPv6, with 14 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The netnames run SOLIDNETWORK-V4-01, SOLIDNETWORK-V4-02 and SOLIDNETWORK-V4-04, skipping the third.
• Six of nine sampled addresses answered, in three forms: 74-123-245-0.netaddr-v4.coresite-lax2.netops.me, 74-123-245-255.bcast-v4.coresite-lax2.netops.me and 74-123-246-254.subnet-v4.coresite-lax2.netops.me.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2011-03-05.

Interesting

• Three different labels for three roles: the first address of a subnet, the last one, and the usable ones in between. Almost nobody bothers. Whoever built this zone generates it from the address plan itself, so the DNS is a readout of the configuration rather than a separate thing to maintain.
• The names also carry a facility and a city code, and one of them drops the facility and keeps only the city. Even a generated zone accumulates exceptions.
• The gap in the netname numbering means a third block was registered and is not announced here, either returned, sold, or used somewhere else.
• Fourteen neighbours for three thousand addresses is a network built for reach rather than size, and a full /32 of IPv6 against three small IPv4 blocks says which protocol it expects to grow into.

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

Announced prefixes

• 74.123.244.0/22
• 104.247.88.0/22
• 140.235.230.0/23
• 2607:6880::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS36221 Esosoft Corporation
• AS402898 ppflight
• AS398032 CHEROKEE-COMMUNICATIONS

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS36221 Esosoft Corporation
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS402898 ppflight
• AS398032 CHEROKEE-COMMUNICATIONS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

Internet exchanges

• Coresite - Any2 West — Los Angeles, United States
• Any2 California — Los Angeles, United States