AS14731 — BEAUCE-TELECOM

AS14731 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,328 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A mail server named at an address ending in 255, which older rules would have forbidden.

What it's used for

• A regional telephone company's network in Canada. 2,304 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• All three blocks carry the identical netname BEAUCE-TELECOM and the same registrant.
• Of nine addresses queried for reverse DNS, one answered: 139.64.213.255 returned smtp30.beaucetelecom.com.
• The blocks come from three widely separated parts of the address range, one of them recent space.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2007-10-05.

Interesting

• Under the original rules an address ending in 255 was the broadcast address and unusable for a host. Inside a larger block it is an ordinary address, and here it carries a mail server. Plenty of old equipment still refuses such addresses, so assigning one to a service that must be reached from everywhere is a quiet bet that the internet has moved on.
• Naming it thirty implies a numbering scheme with room for at least that many mail servers, which is a lot for a network this size. Numbering usually starts high in a plan and stays there.
• Three identical netnames mean nobody bothered to distinguish the records, so the registry gives no clue which block does what. The addresses are the only index.
• Two upstreams and no IPv6 is the shape of an incumbent that connects reliably and modernises slowly.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.154.208.0/24
• 104.224.24.0/22
• 139.64.212.0/22
• 172.99.208.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS33185 Hive Data Center Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS33185 Hive Data Center Inc.