AS14974 — VIRTUAL-INC

AS14974 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Reverse names with the address written backwards, and four blocks under four different owners.

What it's used for

• A hosting network in Puerto Rico carrying newspaper and media systems. 1,024 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The four blocks have four separate registrants: a mobile operator, Virtual, Endi, and EL DIA INC.
• Netnames match that split: CENT-IP, VIRTUAL-ENDI, 196-32-153-0-1 and IS-ELDIA.
• Three of twelve sampled addresses answered, in the form 64-224-203-67-static.centennialpr.net.
• Those names put the four parts of the address in reverse order.

Interesting

• Reversed addresses in reverse DNS are rare and worth pausing on. The reverse lookup zone is itself written backwards, so a script that reads the query and pastes the parts straight into a name produces this. It works, it is unique per address, and it reads as nonsense to anyone expecting the usual order.
• The carrier brand in those names belongs to a company since absorbed by the operator now listed as registrant, so the names are a generation behind the record above them.
• Four blocks, four holders, one AS is a small island market in miniature: two publishing companies, a hosting company and a mobile operator sharing routing rather than each running their own number.
• Two upstreams for a network carrying newspapers is the minimum for something people read on the morning of a hurricane.

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

Announced prefixes

• 67.203.224.0/24
• 196.32.132.0/24
• 196.32.153.0/24
• 200.50.22.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS11992 Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc.
• AS10396 DATACOM CARIBE, INC.

Adjacent networks

• AS11992 Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc.
• AS10396 DATACOM CARIBE, INC.