AS14567 — SPRINGS

Network type: hosting

AS14567 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three netname styles, two reverse-DNS formats, and a carrier's label that names the wrong block.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's network. 4,096 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The company's own blocks are labelled three different ways: SPRINGSHOSTING, SPRINGS-162-244-68, and 8-30-152-0-23 with no name in it at all.
• 206.216.17.0/24 is registered to Level 3 Parent, LLC under the netname LVLT-ORG-206-215.
• Five of fifteen sampled addresses answered, in two formats: host-69-244-162.springshosting.net and host64-196-7-8.springshosting.net.

Interesting

• Both hostname formats write the address backwards, and they disagree about how much of it to include and where to put the dash. One block was set up, then another was set up years later by someone who did not look at the first.
• The carrier's netname names a range one step away from the block it is attached to. Netnames are free text and nothing validates them against the addresses they label, so a single mistyped digit survives indefinitely.
• Five blocks in four unrelated parts of the address space, ranging from a /21 down to a /24, is the portfolio of a hosting company that has bought space wherever it could find it. Nobody designs this; it accumulates.
• The third netname is just the block written out with dashes, which is what the registry generates when the applicant leaves the field alone.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.7.196.0/24
• 8.30.152.0/23
• 162.244.68.0/22
• 192.30.128.0/21
• 206.216.17.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS33652 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS402302 HostMyApple Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS402302 HostMyApple Inc.
• AS33652 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC