AS14828 — HBCI-1999TA

AS14828 announces 17 IPv4 prefixes covering 59,136 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A small-town ISP announcing space still registered to three different national carriers, two of which no longer exist under those names.

What it's used for

• A regional broadband provider. 59,136 addresses across 17 IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2605:9b80::/32, with five observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Its own blocks carry netnames HBC-73, HBC-001 and HBC-003.
• 8.24.96.0/20 carries LVLT-ORG-8-8, registered to Level 3 Parent, LLC.
• Four blocks carry the netname SPRINTLINK.
• Three more carry GX-FRO2003807254, with the provider named as the registrant.
• The AS handle is HBCI-1999TA.
• One of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name: cable-207-138-215-254.dynamic.hbci.com.

Interesting

• GX-FRO2003807254 is a carrier's order number, filed as a netname and never revisited. It outlasted the carrier that issued it, which is how a defunct company keeps appearing in the registry decades later.
• Four different naming systems on one small network: the operator's own initials, one carrier's organisation code, another's product name, and a third's ticket. Each block remembers who sold it.
• The handle ends in a year, which dates the application rather than anything about the network.
• One name out of eighteen, and it says cable and dynamic. The reverse zone exists but is populated only where a customer connection was actually turned up.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.24.96.0/20
• 23.235.0.0/20
• 63.163.64.0/24
• 64.211.112.0/21
• 64.213.216.0/21
• 65.162.40.0/21
• 104.218.220.0/22
• 140.190.0.0/18
• 173.224.172.0/22
• 192.145.240.0/20
• 192.151.160.0/20
• 204.248.112.0/20
• 205.243.114.0/23
• 205.243.116.0/22
• 205.243.120.0/21
• 206.230.104.0/21
• 207.138.192.0/19
• 2605:9b80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS13712 Saint Marys University of Minnesota
• AS394316 Altra Federal Credit Union
• AS17301 Fastenal Company

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS13712 Saint Marys University of Minnesota
• AS394316 Altra Federal Credit Union
• AS17301 Fastenal Company

Internet exchanges

• Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange — Minneapolis, United States