AS14740 — MAGNA5

AS14740 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Names whose first four labels are the address itself, in the usual order.

What it's used for

• A managed services and connectivity provider's network. 1,024 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with five observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Eight of nine sampled addresses answered, in the form 162.12.216.64.va.magna5.com and 67.221.0.128.wpa.magna5.com.
• The netnames carry the same site codes: MAGNA5-VA-162-12-216-0 and MAGNA5-WPA-67-221-0-0-1.
• Registry records and reverse DNS therefore agree on which block belongs to which site.
• Five upstreams were observed, more than most networks of this size.

Interesting

• Almost every generated reverse name replaces the dots in an address with dashes. These do not, so the first four labels of the name are the address written normally, followed by a site tag and the domain. It reads oddly and it confuses anything that scans text for an address, since the name contains a complete one.
• Having the site code in both the netname and the reverse name is unusual and genuinely useful. Most networks let those two systems drift apart, and here somebody kept them in step across three blocks from three different ranges.
• Five neighbours for a thousand addresses says the business sells connectivity as well as hosting. Providers accumulate upstreams because customers ask about resilience, not because the traffic demands it.
• One sampled address returned nothing while the rest answered, which is the ordinary state of a block where a few addresses are held back.

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

Announced prefixes

• 67.221.0.0/23
• 162.12.216.0/24
• 209.212.70.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS

Adjacent networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS

Internet exchanges

• LINX NoVa — Reston, United States
• Pittsburgh Internet Exchange — Pittsburgh, United States