AS4980 — NO - Whole Sale

AS4980 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS4980 is registered to an ARIN organisation recorded as "Whole Sale" in Shreveport, Louisiana, with contacts on the morrisdickson.com domain, identifying it as the network of Morris & Dickson Co., a family-owned pharmaceutical wholesale distributor.

What it's used for

A single /24 supporting the company's own business: the ordering, inventory and distribution systems behind drug wholesaling to pharmacies and hospitals across the US South. It is an enterprise network with no public service component.

Notable

Despite the low AS number, the ARIN registration is modern (2009), so the number was reissued rather than held from the early internet. The NO AS name and the terse "Whole Sale" organisation string are a small case study in how little effort some registrants put into their registry records, and why you should never classify a network from its handle alone.

Interesting

Morris & Dickson is one of the largest independent drug distributors in the United States, a sector otherwise dominated by three national giants. The network is a /24; the business moves billions of dollars of product.

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

Announced prefixes

• 74.118.58.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS32505 Conterra

Adjacent networks

• AS32505 Conterra

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CONTERRA-ALL, AS-HURRICANE, AS32505:AS-DLLSTX-PEERS.