AS14671 — TACONIC

AS14671 announces 17 IPv4 prefixes covering 24,576 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three company names in the registry, four reverse domains in the DNS, and two of those domains differ only by a hyphen.

What it's used for

• A regional telephone company's broadband network. 24,576 addresses across 17 IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is TACONIC, and the oldest block still carries the netname TACONIC-TECHNOLOGY-CORP, registered to Taconic Technology Corp.
• Most blocks are registered to FAIRPOINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. under netnames of the form FAIRPOINT-TACONIC-158-164, several listing a Fairpoint Communications Abuse contact.
• Four blocks are registered to Fidium, under CC-4441, CHATHAM-FTTH and VIS-BLOCK.
• Six of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, across four domains: 74-209-27-254.xhsi.chhmny.ccidns.net, 69-50-37-254-xdsl.chhmny.cci-dns.net, 216-212-91-254.mnchnh.fidium.ccidns.net and 216-227-59-255.du.berk.com.

Interesting

• ccidns.net and cci-dns.net are two registered domains for the same initials, both in service. Someone could not get the first one, or could not remember which they had, and both ended up in the generator.
• The labels carry the access technology in the middle: xhsi, xdsl, ftth, du. A support technician can read the line type straight off the hostname, which is the whole reason the scheme exists.
• Two brand names sit between the town code and the domain on some names and not others, so the rebrand was applied per block rather than across the zone.
• Three registrant names in one estate traces an acquisition and a later retail rebrand, and the oldest name survives on the block that predates both.

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

Announced prefixes

• 67.158.164.0/23
• 67.158.166.0/24
• 67.158.178.0/23
• 67.158.180.0/24
• 68.237.136.0/21
• 68.238.50.0/23
• 69.50.32.0/21
• 69.195.48.0/20
• 71.181.48.0/23
• 72.95.84.0/23
• 74.209.4.0/23
• 74.209.16.0/20
• 209.105.140.0/22
• 216.212.80.0/20
• 216.227.56.0/21
• 216.227.80.0/22
• 216.227.122.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13977 Fidium

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13977 Fidium