AS14830 — PFA-BETH-AS-1

AS14830 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One block answers with a bare domain name; the other answers that its addresses are available.

What it's used for

• An investment adviser's network. 512 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Three addresses in 208.95.241.0/24 all answer as profunds.com, with no host part at all.
• Three addresses in 208.185.198.0/24 answer in the form 208.185.198.64.available.above.net.
• The netnames are PFA-BETHESDA-NET-208-95-241-0, naming a city, and ABOV-I421-208-185-198-0-24, a carrier's provisioning string.
• The registrant is spelled two different ways across the two records, one plural and one not.

Interesting

• A reverse record pointing at the bare domain is technically valid and practically unhelpful: it says which organisation the address belongs to and nothing about which machine. Mail software that checks whether the forward and reverse names agree will accept it, which is usually why it is done.
• The word available in the other zone means the carrier considers those addresses unassigned. They are being announced by a customer's AS while the carrier's own records still describe them as free, which is the sort of disagreement that goes unnoticed until somebody else is handed the same space.
• The two netnames divide neatly into the two eras of getting addresses: one names the office they serve, the other names the order that provisioned them.
• Three upstreams for 512 addresses is careful, and appropriate for a firm whose funds are priced daily.

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

Announced prefixes

• 208.95.241.0/24
• 208.185.198.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS33657 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS40068 Neovera, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS33657 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS40068 Neovera, Inc.