AS14512 — BENTLEY-AS

AS14512 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A university whose netname stops one letter short of its own name.

What it's used for

• A university's network. 512 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 162.120.86.0/23, carrying the netname BENTLE-10.
• That netname drops the final letter of the university's name, then adds a counter.
• The AS handle is BENTLEY-AS, which keeps the letter the netname drops.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Old registry forms limited how many characters a name field could hold, and truncations like this are the fossil left behind. Nobody chose to cut the last letter; a form did, and the entry has outlived the form by decades.
• The counter on the end implies other blocks numbered before this one, held or returned, that never appear in routing from this number.
• Universities of this size usually run visible public services with names attached to them, so finding nothing in reverse DNS across the sample suggests the public web presence lives somewhere other than this block.
• 512 addresses is small for a campus, which in practice means most of the institution sits behind address translation and only a thin outward-facing layer is reachable.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.120.86.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS7015 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS10578 Harvard University
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS11164 Internet2

Adjacent networks

• AS7015 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS10578 Harvard University
• AS11164 Internet2
• AS11537 Internet2