AS14538 — HEC-NETWORK - Harrisonburg Electric Commission

AS14538 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The block carries the same carrier netname as an unrelated manufacturer elsewhere in this range.

What it's used for

• A municipal electric utility's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 50.205.160.0/24, carrying the netname CCCH3-4 and registered to a cable carrier.
• That exact netname appears on a different organisation's block in this same sweep.
• The AS handle is HEC-NETWORK, the utility's initials and a generic suffix.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Netnames are not required to be unique, and a carrier assigning out of one large range can stamp the same compressed label on every piece of it. Finding it twice on unrelated customers confirms the label describes the carrier's allocation rather than anybody using it.
• Municipal electric commissions are among the oldest public network operators, because the poles and conduit were already theirs. That history is why a small city utility holds an AS number at all.
• Everything identifying the utility sits in the AS record; the addresses themselves are the carrier's and say nothing.
• One upstream on a network run by a public body that also has electricity to keep running.

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

Announced prefixes

• 50.205.160.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS4922 Shenandoah Cable Television LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS4922 Shenandoah Cable Television LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 1 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 8 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-COMCAST-EDIA, AS-PNAPNYM, AS-SHENTEL.