AS14790 — CAMERON

AS14790 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Every address answers with a thirty-two character hash in the middle of its name.

What it's used for

• A community hospital's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• All three sampled addresses answer under ip.frontiernet.net, each with a long hexadecimal label between the address and the domain, such as 8e38d391256b38bec45578b4234ad37c.
• The three hashes differ from each other, so the label is generated per address.
• The whole footprint is 104.169.15.0/24, carrying the netname FRTR and registered to Verizon Business.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and all three returned a name.

Interesting

• The hash length is the classic digest size, and inserting one into every hostname makes the names unguessable while keeping them unique. It is a scanning countermeasure written into the DNS itself: the address is still there in the first label, but nothing else about the host leaks.
• Netname and registrant name two different carriers, which is what a line transfer leaves behind when the abbreviation is updated and the organisation field is not.
• The hospital's own name appears only in the AS record, so from the addresses alone this network reads as ordinary carrier space.
• Two upstreams keeps clinical systems reachable when one carrier path fails.

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

Announced prefixes

• 104.169.15.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS394176 I-NET USA, LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS394176 I-NET USA, LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.