AS14713 — HBL-35-14713 - Hosted Backbone

Network type: hosting

AS14713 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,376 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One of its addresses answers undefined.hostname.localhost, and one of its blocks belongs to a shoe shop.

What it's used for

• A hosting and transit provider's network. 5,376 addresses across 11 IPv4 prefixes and 16 IPv6 prefixes, with 37 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Its own blocks carry HBL-V4-1, HBL-V4-2, HOSTED-NETBLK4 and three copies of NETBLK4.
• 204.109.52.0/22 carries HBL-V4-3 but is registered to Saxon Shoes, Inc.
• Other blocks belong to Fauquier County, Verizon Business, and two companies filed in another registry as US-CLEARDOCKS-20110419 and US-TRUVIEW-20100820.
• Four of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, including nc-ctl4-edge1lo2.ctl4.nc.hostedbackbone.net and undefined.hostname.localhost.

Interesting

• That last name is a default string from network equipment, published to the internet because nobody replaced it. It is the most honest record in the pack.
• The router names carry an underscore, which hostnames are not supposed to contain, and encode state, site, device and the exact interface the address sits on. Anyone reading them learns the provider's physical layout for free.
• A retailer's /22 under the provider's own netname series is address space bought or inherited from a business with no further use for it. The county block next to it is a customer keeping its own registration.
• The IPv6 side is one family announced as a ladder from /47 up to /39, far more space than the IPv4 footprint suggests.

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

Announced prefixes

• 31.13.246.0/24
• 46.33.26.0/24
• 64.112.184.0/22
• 142.202.232.0/22
• 165.140.73.0/24
• 165.140.74.0/23
• 204.109.52.0/22
• 208.87.48.0/22
• 2607:5c80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6079 RCN
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS7459 Grande Communications Networks, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS398781 OCULUS NETWORKS INC
• AS29770 The Internet Subway
• AS400211 Port 80
• AS40302 Spotsylvania County Government
• AS55218 iWiSP llc
• AS11187 Richweb, Inc
• AS19919 VA SkyWire, LLC
• AS397137 Seiontec Systems, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS398781 OCULUS NETWORKS INC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS6079 RCN
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS7459 Grande Communications Networks, LLC
• AS29770 The Internet Subway
• AS400211 Port 80
• AS40302 Spotsylvania County Government
• AS55218 iWiSP llc
• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS11187 Richweb, Inc
• AS19919 VA SkyWire, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS397137 Seiontec Systems, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 13 valid, 0 invalid and 6 not-found announcements; 8 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 79% of announcements registered; 94 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-COX-SOUTHWEST, AS-GRANDE, AS-HOSTEDBACKBONE, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-LA-PEERS, AS-PEAK10_CUSTOMERS, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-WA-PEERS, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas — Dallas, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Miami — Miami, United States
• Equinix-LA(former Paix) — Los Angeles, United States