AS14609 — EQUINIX-CORP-NETWORK

AS14609 announces 16 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,656 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One of its hosts is called somehost, and one of its registry records says SANDBOX.

What it's used for

• A data centre operator's corporate network, separate from the exchange fabric it runs. 6,656 addresses across 16 IPv4 prefixes, with 23 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Netnames run EQUINIX-EDMA-CORP-1 through EQUINIX-EDMA-CORP-11, plus EQUINIX-EDMA-CHI, EQUINIX-EDMA-SV-2 and EQUINIX-IBX-SANDBOX-1, with operations-centre and response-centre contacts on several.
• Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned names: br1.sv3.equinix.net, dhcp-126.ch1.equinix.net, ch3lxmailin01.equinix.com, somehost-126.ch3.equinix.net and asa.la3.corp.equinix.com.

Interesting

• somehost is a placeholder that somebody typed while testing a naming script and never went back to change. It has been answering reverse lookups from a production block ever since, which is how most placeholders end their lives.
• The other four names are dense: each carries a campus code, and the remaining letters give away a border router, a dynamically assigned address, an inbound mail server on a particular operating system, and a firewall named after its model. Anyone mapping this company's internal estate can start from DNS.
• A netname containing SANDBOX marks a block set aside for experiments. It is still announced to the internet, so the sandbox has walls made of naming convention.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.191.195.0/24
• 64.191.204.0/24
• 64.191.206.0/23
• 64.191.222.0/24
• 64.191.224.0/24
• 64.191.226.0/23
• 64.191.238.0/23
• 64.191.248.0/23
• 67.223.178.0/24
• 206.184.17.0/24
• 206.223.132.0/22
• 208.115.142.0/23
• 216.221.224.0/23
• 216.221.228.0/24
• 216.221.230.0/23
• 216.221.232.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS19930 Equinix, Inc.
• AS12085 Equinix, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Adjacent networks

• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS19930 Equinix, Inc.
• AS12085 Equinix, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago — Chicago, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas — Dallas, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) — San Jose, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange New York — New York, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Los Angeles — Los Angeles, United States
• Equinix Los Angeles IBX — Los Angeles, United States