AS14437 — FLEMING

AS14437 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 16,384 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS is named after a competitor that no longer exists, and its twelve prefixes form two identical halving chains side by side.

What it's used for

• A grocery wholesaler's own network. 16,384 addresses across 12 IPv4 prefixes, with four observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is FLEMING, while every block is registered to C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS INC. under the single netname CANDS-WHOLESALE-VERMONT.
• All twelve prefixes come from 198.185, in two groups of six.
• Each group runs /24, /24, /23, /22, /21, /20, each starting where the previous ended, so the six pieces tile a larger block exactly.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Two chains with the same shape means the same tool ran twice on two ranges. Nothing about a warehouse network needs that structure; it is the output of a program asked to cover a range with prefixes, and it was left as generated.
• A handle naming a company that was acquired and wound down turns the registry into a record of consolidation. The purchaser kept the AS number because renumbering costs more than living with the wrong name.
• The netname puts a state into the label. For a company operating distribution centres across a continent, naming the network after its headquarters is a choice that dates the record to when there was only one.
• No reverse names, no IPv6, four neighbours, one netname. A private network whose only public surface is the fact that it exists.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.185.64.0/18

Upstream networks

• AS11351 Charter Communications Inc
• AS54004 Cablevision Lightpath LLC
• AS13977 Fidium
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS11351 Charter Communications Inc
• AS54004 Cablevision Lightpath LLC
• AS13977 Fidium
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC