AS14556 — PTC

AS14556 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Four blocks, four different carriers' filing habits, one company.

What it's used for

• A truck stop chain's network. 1,280 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, with four observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 74.114.188.0/23 and 74.114.190.0/24 carry PILOT-CORP and name a network team as contact.
• 65.196.143.0/24 carries UU-65-196-143-D4, a two-letter carrier prefix from a company absorbed decades ago.
• 70.159.149.0/24 carries BLS-70-159-149-0-24-1007281431, ending in ten digits that read as a date and a time to the minute.
• The company name is written three different ways across the four records.

Interesting

• The ten-digit tail is the moment the record was created, down to the minute, stamped by a provisioning system that had no expectation anyone would read it. It is the most precise timestamp in this whole range, and it sits in a field meant for a name.
• Reading the four netnames in order is a short history of American telecommunications: two acquired carriers' formats, still untouched under their new owner, alongside the company's own records where somebody chose the words.
• Four upstreams for a modest amount of address space fits a business with hundreds of sites where fuel pumps, card readers and the point of sale all have to keep talking to head office.
• Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name, which keeps that estate invisible.

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

Announced prefixes

• 65.196.143.0/24
• 70.159.149.0/24
• 74.114.188.0/23
• 74.114.190.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS12083 WideOpenWest Finance LLC
• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS7029 Windstream Communications LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS12083 WideOpenWest Finance LLC
• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS7029 Windstream Communications LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC