AS14430 — BWFN-PRIME
AS14430 announces 17 IPv4 prefixes covering 18,176 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
A fibre network carrying a sovereign tribal nation's own address space alongside its own.
What it's used for
- A regional fibre provider's network. 14,080 addresses across 16 IPv4 prefixes, with six observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced. First seen in 2000.
Notable
- Blocks carry BWFN, BALSAMWEST-CGNT-NET-1 and BFL-18, all registered to BalsamWest FiberNET, LLC.
- 208.68.120.0/21 carries the netname EBCI3, registered to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
- Five blocks carry the netname DNET, registered to Dnet Internet Services.
- The lookup for 64.85.189.0/24 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A tribal nation holding address space in its own name, announced through a local carrier, is how self-determination looks in the routing table. The registration says the addresses belong to the nation; the routing says the fibre belongs to somebody else. Both facts are visible at once.
- Three netname families on one network usually means three companies. Two of the three registrants here are distinct organisations, so this AS is carrying at least two other networks' space as well as its own.
- Not one of eighteen sampled addresses answered a reverse lookup. On an ISP that is unusual, and it suggests the customer-facing addressing lives elsewhere while these blocks serve infrastructure and business circuits.
- Six neighbours on a network this size is well connected for rural fibre, which is usually the whole point of building it.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 38.21.208.0/20
- 38.55.80.0/21
- 38.55.88.0/24
- 63.142.128.0/20
- 64.85.178.0/23
- 64.85.180.0/23
- 64.85.189.0/24
- 64.85.190.0/24
- 147.185.164.0/22
- 184.171.133.0/24
- 184.171.134.0/23
- 184.171.136.0/22
- 184.171.141.0/24
- 184.171.142.0/24
- 204.209.68.0/23
- 204.209.70.0/24
- 208.68.120.0/21
Upstream networks
Downstream networks
- AS19435 Dnet Internet Services
- AS32840 Cherokee Cablevision
- AS31919 Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation - BRM EMC
- AS46685 Murphy Cable TV
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