AS14693 — BAPTIST-HEALTH-AS

AS14693 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,792 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Four blocks, four naming conventions, and six upstreams for a hospital system.

What it's used for

• A hospital system's network. 2,048 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, with six observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The netnames are BH-29-NET, BH-29-NET-2, 162-39-180-0 and NETBLK-AR-CBS-184-191-216-0.
• The last of those is registered to Cox Communications Inc. rather than to the hospital.
• Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2000-08-18.

Interesting

• Six neighbours is a lot for four small blocks, and for a hospital it is the whole point. Electronic records, imaging transfers and remote consultation all stop when connectivity stops, so the network is built to lose several links and keep working. Most organisations this size run two.
• One netname is the address itself with dashes, which is what a registry generates when the applicant offers no name. Another simply appends a second number to an existing name, the cheapest possible way to file a second block.
• The carrier-registered record folds a state abbreviation and a business-services brand into the name, so it identifies the product line before it identifies the customer.
• Publishing nothing in reverse DNS is the right default for a network under health privacy rules, where even a hostname can suggest what a system does.

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

Announced prefixes

• 184.191.216.0/24
• 198.89.86.0/23
• 207.167.76.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS15164 Unite Private Networks LLC.
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.
• AS7029 Windstream Communications LLC
• AS23404 Ritter Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS15164 Unite Private Networks LLC.
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.
• AS7029 Windstream Communications LLC
• AS23404 Ritter Communications