AS14858 — HISNET

AS14858 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 11,264 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three blocks still registered to the upstream carrier that lent them, announced here by the customer.

What it's used for

• A regional provider's network. 11,264 addresses across 12 IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2606:7780::/32, with four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Eight blocks carry the netname HISNET, registered to Hanson Information Systems, Inc. / Family Net.
• Three blocks in the 12 range carry the netname ATT, registered to AT&T Enterprises, LLC.
• 208.95.223.0/24 carries KARMAK-NET, registered to Karmak, Inc.
• Three of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name: host-216-8-93-254.beardstown.hansoninfosys.com, static.hansoninformationsystems.com and ito-springfield.static.hansoninfosys.com.

Interesting

• Space registered to a large carrier and announced by somebody else is address space that came with the circuit. The customer grew large enough to want its own AS but kept the addresses, so the registry still names the carrier while the routing names the customer.
• Two domains for one company, one spelled out and one abbreviated, both carrying live reverse records. Whichever came second never replaced the first.
• The reverse names put a town in the label, so an address tells you which community it serves before you look anything up. That is a naming scheme built by people who think in places rather than in racks.
• A registrant that is a separate named company on one /24 is a business customer whose addresses stayed in its own name, which is the same story as the carrier blocks told from the other end.

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

Announced prefixes

• 12.147.32.0/21
• 12.160.128.0/21
• 12.165.92.0/24
• 208.95.223.0/24
• 216.8.64.0/24
• 216.8.66.0/23
• 216.8.68.0/22
• 216.8.72.0/22
• 216.8.78.0/23
• 216.8.80.0/24
• 216.8.84.0/22
• 216.8.88.0/21
• 2606:7780::/32

Upstream networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS33491 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS19058 Illinois Rural Telecommunication Co.

Adjacent networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS33491 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS19058 Illinois Rural Telecommunication Co.