AS14485 — ST-FRANCOIS

AS14485 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A rural municipality's AS, with the addresses held by the broadband company it works through.

What it's used for

• Rural broadband for a Manitoba municipality. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS is named for a rural municipality while 104.224.56.0/22 is registered to Rural Connections Manitoba Ltd.
• That block's netname is RURAL CONNECTIONS MANITOBA, written with spaces.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2000-08-18.

Interesting

• Netnames almost never contain spaces. The field grew out of a time when records were read by simple tools that split text on whitespace, so the convention is dashes, and a name with spaces in it is the mark of somebody filling in a form without having seen how everyone else fills it in.
• A municipality holding an AS number is what happens when commercial providers decline to build. The council either builds itself or partners with a small company, and the routing identity ends up with one party while the addresses sit with the other.
• Two upstreams for a rural network is more redundancy than many small providers manage, and it matters more here, because for the farms on the other end this is likely to be the only option rather than one of several.
• Address space from a range issued late in the life of IPv4 means the build is recent, whatever the age of the AS number carrying it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 104.224.56.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS31914 Hutterian Broadband Network Inc
• AS22682 Prairie-Sky Wireless

Adjacent networks

• AS31914 Hutterian Broadband Network Inc
• AS22682 Prairie-Sky Wireless