AS14632 — BIA30ASN

AS14632 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The netname says which protocol the block is for, and the other one never arrived.

What it's used for

• An investment management firm's network. 768 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Both 199.167.232.0/23 and 199.167.234.0/24 carry the netname BIA-IPV4.
• The AS handle is BIA30ASN, with two digits wedged between the initials and the word for the number itself.
• The AS was first seen in routing on 2011-07-28, which is late for a number in this range.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Naming the protocol in a record only makes sense if you expect a matching record for the other one. The counterpart is not announced here, and the block was created at a point where a firm planning ahead would have asked for both. Whatever the intention was, only half of it is visible.
• The digits inside the handle are the harder puzzle. They are not a year, not a count of anything in the record, and they sit between an abbreviation and a suffix that both make sense without them.
• First appearing in routing well after the number was issued means this AS was dormant or held by someone else before the firm began announcing with it. Numbers change hands far more quietly than addresses do.
• Three upstreams for 768 addresses is careful, and appropriate for a business where being unreachable during market hours is the failure that counts.

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

Announced prefixes

• 199.167.232.0/23
• 199.167.234.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS29748 Quality Technology Services, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS40107 Quality Technology Services, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS29748 Quality Technology Services, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS40107 Quality Technology Services, LLC