AS16384 — SMCVT

AS16384 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname is named after a provider that has since renamed, and reverse DNS is served by its successor.

What it's used for

• A college network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• One netname begins with a provider's brand and a state abbreviation, then the college's name with the spaces and apostrophe stripped out, then a numeral. The provider assigned the block and named it after itself first.
• The other netname is the college's own five-letter abbreviation, which also carries the state, and the word for a network.
• Neither block lists an abuse contact or a technical role. The college is the only entry on both.
• Three of six queried addresses answered, all with the address hyphenated into four parts, the word for a static assignment, and a domain belonging to a company that appears nowhere in the registry record.
• That domain is not the provider named in the netname, so the block has changed hands at least once since it was labelled.
• The older block sits in a range allocated long before netnames carried dates.

Interesting

• A five-letter abbreviation carrying a state code is how institutions distinguished themselves when the address space was small enough that everyone assumed a national audience.
• Reverse names served under a provider's domain rather than the college's mean the college never took over the delegation. The addresses are theirs; the naming is still rented.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.25.221.0/24
• 192.80.64.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS13536 FirstLight Fiber, Inc.
• AS1351 University of Vermont

Adjacent networks

• AS13536 FirstLight Fiber, Inc.
• AS1351 University of Vermont