AS14703 — MAQSNET

AS14703 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Its one reverse name contains a town, an equipment vendor, a line type and a port number.

What it's used for

• A rural telephone cooperative's internet network. 10,240 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2604:260::/32, with a single observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• 66.187.32.0/20 and 66.206.48.0/20 carry the netnames MAQS-BLK-1 and MAQS-BLK-2, registered to the cooperative.
• 38.254.12.0/22 carries MRAD-CGNT-NET-1, and 154.59.60.0/22 carries COGENT-154-59-16 registered to Cogent Communications, LLC.
• One of twelve sampled addresses returned a name: oxfo-occam-dyn-002-507.dsl.maqs.net.

Interesting

• That single hostname carries four facts. A four-letter town abbreviation, the name of the access equipment vendor, a marker saying the address is handed out dynamically, and a pair of numbers for the shelf and port the subscriber is plugged into. A support technician can find the physical line from the address alone.
• Naming the hardware vendor in a customer-facing hostname ties the zone to a purchasing decision. When the equipment is replaced, either every name changes or the label becomes a fossil.
• Two blocks are the cooperative's own and two came from its upstream, one of them still registered in the carrier's name. The abbreviation for that carrier also appears inside one of the cooperative's own netnames, so the relationship is recorded twice in different words.
• A single neighbour makes that upstream the whole of this network's connection to the internet.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.254.12.0/22
• 66.187.32.0/20
• 66.206.48.0/20
• 154.59.60.0/22
• 2604:260::/32

Upstream networks

• AS11796 Airstream Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS11796 Airstream Communications, LLC