AS14760 — MURRAY-STATE-UNIVERSITY

AS14760 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 12,288 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two adjacent blocks, one netname naming a state education network, and nothing else on the record.

What it's used for

• A university's network. 12,288 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced. First seen in 2008.

Notable

• 216.249.144.0/20 carries the netname KECN-1, registered to Murray State University.
• The lookup for 216.249.160.0/19 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Two prefixes from the same range, one twice the size of the other, is an institution that came back for more space and got it next door. That is the tidiest outcome a second request can have, and it became rare once free address space ran short.
• A netname that abbreviates a network rather than the university suggests the space arrived through a state-level education network rather than directly from the registry. The label records who handed it over, not who uses it.
• Nothing in the sample answered a reverse lookup, which for a campus network usually means the student and staff address ranges live elsewhere in the estate, or the zone was never delegated.
• First appearing in the routing table in 2008 puts this AS well after the ones around it. The university had addresses long before it had its own place in the routing table, and got one when multiple upstreams made it worth the trouble. Three neighbours today say that is exactly what happened.

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

Announced prefixes

• 216.249.144.0/20
• 216.249.160.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS23248 Paducah Power System
• AS10437 Kentucky Regional Optical Network (KY-RON)
• AS400436 Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA)

Adjacent networks

• AS23248 Paducah Power System
• AS10437 Kentucky Regional Optical Network (KY-RON)
• AS400436 Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA)