AS14500 — GALAXYBROADBAND-01

Network type: residential

AS14500 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Every reverse name writes the address backwards, because the zone generator never turned it back around.

What it's used for

• A broadband provider's network. 10,240 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes plus two IPv6 prefixes, with 15 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Blocks carry GBC-1 through GBC-4, registered to Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc. with NOC, Abuse and ADMIN contacts.
• Two blocks carry GALAXYFIBRE-BROOKS-1 and GALAXYFIBRE-BROOKS-HSI1, registered to GalaxyFibre.
• All eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, every one with the address reversed: 68.70.148.0 answers 0.148.70.68.ip.galaxybroadband.ca.

Interesting

• Reverse DNS queries are made against the address written backwards, so a lookup for 68.70.148.0 asks about 0.148.70.68 and its arpa suffix. Here the generator took that reversed form and pasted it straight into the answer, so every hostname on the network reads right to left. It works perfectly and looks wrong to everyone who sees it.
• The two GalaxyFibre blocks name a town and, on one of them, the service sold there. A netname that carries a place and a product is a record written by someone who expected to read it again.
• Fifteen neighbours on 10,240 addresses is a lot of adjacency for a small estate, and it is what a provider ends up with after connecting to exchanges in several places.
• Every sampled address answered, first and last included, which means the zone is generated whole with no exceptions carved out for the addresses that cannot be assigned.

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

Announced prefixes

• 68.70.144.0/20
• 173.244.80.0/20
• 192.151.132.0/22
• 199.182.116.0/22
• 2607:72c0:100::/48
• 2607:72c0:200::/48

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6327 Shaw Communications
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS6509 CANARIE Inc
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS21949 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6327 Shaw Communications
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS6509 CANARIE Inc
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States
• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange — Calgary, Canada