AS14480 — ORANGEBURGCOUNTYBB-SC

AS14480 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A county government that is also a consumer internet provider, handing out dynamic addresses under a regional brand.

What it's used for

• A county-run broadband network. 5,120 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Every block is registered to County of Orangeburg under four different netnames: ORANGEBURGCOUNTY-BB, CO-62, NET-165-166-170-0-1 and NET-165-166-126-0-1.
• Three of eighteen sampled addresses returned names of the form dynamic-165-166-170-128.lowcountry.com.
• The AS handle spells out both the county and its state.

Interesting

• The word dynamic in a hostname is a promise to the rest of the internet: this address changes hands, do not trust it, do not accept mail from it. A county government publishing that on its own subscriber pool is behaving like an ISP, because it is one.
• The domain in those names is a regional nickname rather than the county's own, so the service was branded for the area it covers instead of the government that runs it. Nothing in DNS says a public body is behind it.
• The netnames split into two eras. Two of them spell out an address range in the old registry style and two carry a broadband label, which places the fibre build long after the county first held address space.
• Public broadband built where private carriers did not go is a policy decision made visible in the routing table.

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

Announced prefixes

• 74.119.237.0/24
• 104.37.152.0/22
• 104.224.4.0/22
• 107.182.144.0/23
• 107.182.148.0/22
• 107.182.152.0/23
• 165.166.126.0/24
• 165.166.170.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS18671 PRTC
• AS16863 Home Telephone Company, Inc.
• AS2711 Spirit Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS18671 PRTC
• AS16863 Home Telephone Company, Inc.
• AS2711 Spirit Communications