AS14749 — RUSSEPB
AS14749 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
Two municipal utilities share this network, and one of them writes every address backwards in DNS.
What it's used for
- A municipal electric utility's broadband network. 4,352 addresses across six IPv4 prefixes plus 2606:fbc0::/32 of IPv6, with five observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Five blocks are registered to Russellville Electric Plant Board under REPB and three address-derived netnames.
- 50.30.120.0/23 is registered to Hopkinsville Electric System under the netname 50-30-112-0-20, which names a larger parent block.
- All eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, under two domains: epbnet.com answers net-162-212-138-0.epbnet.com, while hesenergy.net answers 128-120-30-50.hesenergy.net.
Interesting
- Those second names are the address in reverse order. Reverse DNS queries are built from a backwards address, and somebody generating this zone kept the order the query arrived in instead of flipping it back. Every subscriber of that utility has a hostname that reads right to left.
- Two neighbouring towns' utilities sharing one AS, one address range and one routing policy is municipal broadband economics in a single record: neither is large enough to do this alone, and the registry shows exactly where one ends and the other begins.
- Eighteen out of eighteen addresses answering, including the first and last of each block, is a fully populated reverse zone, generated rather than curated.
- A /32 of IPv6 for a two-town network is provider-sized space, which is what these utilities now are.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 50.30.112.0/22
- 50.30.120.0/23
- 66.255.253.0/24
- 66.255.254.0/24
- 162.212.136.0/21
- 199.242.223.0/24
- 2606:fbc0::/32
Upstream networks
Downstream networks
- AS401325 Logan Aluminum Inc.
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