AS14827 — WSDOT-ASN

AS14827 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 66,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The same agency registered twice, once spelled out in full and once abbreviated, with the words in a different order.

What it's used for

• A state transport agency's network. 66,048 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 164.110.0.0/16 carries the netname WASHINGTON-STATE-DEPARTMENT-OF-TRANSPORTATION, registered to Washington State Department of Transportation.
• 198.238.212.0/23 carries DOT-WANET1, registered to State of Washington - Department of Transportation.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• One netname spells the entire agency across forty-odd characters; the other compresses it to nine. Both were filed by the same body for the same network, years apart, by people with opposite instincts about what a name is for.
• The registrant strings differ too. One reads as a sentence, the other leads with the state and puts the department after a dash, which is the sorting convention of an agency directory rather than of an address registry.
• A transport department holds a sixteen-bit block for cameras, signs, signals and weigh stations spread along highways. The addresses are cheap next to the conduit, and the count reflects geography rather than headcount.
• One neighbour means the whole thing reaches the internet through a single provider, which for a state agency is usually a central contract rather than a routing choice.

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

Announced prefixes

• 164.110.0.0/16
• 198.238.212.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS4193 State of Washington

Adjacent networks

• AS4193 State of Washington