AS14583 — VITA-VSP-1

AS14583 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The state's technology agency holds the number; the state police hold the addresses.

What it's used for

• A state police force's network. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS name is the state's information technology agency, while the block 199.101.220.0/22 is registered to Virginia State Police.
• The netname is VSP and the contact is an engineering group within the same force.
• The AS handle joins both parties, agency first and force second, with a sequence number.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Two different levels of a state government appear in one AS record, and the handle is where they meet. Centralised technology agencies were created precisely so that individual departments would stop buying their own connectivity, and the compromise visible here is the agency holding the routing identity while the department keeps its own address space and its own engineers.
• That arrangement is worth noticing because it decides who answers when something goes wrong. The contact on the block is inside the police force, so a problem with these addresses reaches the people who run them rather than a central helpdesk.
• Two upstreams is right for a force whose systems support dispatch and records around the clock.
• Publishing nothing in reverse DNS is correct for law enforcement, where naming a host is a free hint about what it does.

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

Announced prefixes

• 199.101.220.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS21508 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS7795 LUMOS Networks, Inc.
• AS21508 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC