AS14971 — PINETEL

AS14971 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 12,032 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Five blocks, four registrants and three different reverse-DNS domains on one small telephone company's network.

What it's used for

• A rural telephone company's internet network. 12,032 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 38.87.96.0/21 carries RALLY-CGNT-NET-2 and 208.80.80.0/22 carries PINETEL, both registered to Pine Telephone System, Inc.
• 23.168.96.0/23 carries the netname NET23, registered to American Registry for Internet Numbers.
• 24.223.57.0/24 carries the netname GOLDENDALE, registered to HTC.
• The lookup for 38.159.128.0/19 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• Seven of fifteen sampled addresses returned a name, across helixtel.com, pinetel.com and intertech.net.

Interesting

• Three reverse-DNS domains on five blocks is a company operating under several brands, or one that bought others and kept their zones running. Renaming a customer's reverse record breaks nothing and helps nobody, so the old names stay.
• A block registered to the address registry itself is space the registry still holds on paper. It is being announced anyway, which happens when the assignment below it was never reflected upward.
• A netname that is a town name, on space registered to a different company entirely, is the clearest possible statement of where a /24 goes and who it belongs to.
• The 38 range and the 24 range come from opposite ends of address history, and both are here.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.168.96.0/23
• 24.223.57.0/24
• 38.87.96.0/21
• 38.159.128.0/19
• 208.80.80.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS15305 Syringa Networks, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS15305 Syringa Networks, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Northwest Access Exchange — Portland, United States