AS5778 — CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-RCMT

Network type: residential

AS5778 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,792 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-RCMT is a CenturyLink Communications, LLC network carrying the former Embarq local-telephone footprint. It is an eyeball ISP: the addresses here are mostly homes and small businesses on DSL.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business broadband over the incumbent telephone plant that CenturyLink inherited from Embarq, spread across that company's local-exchange territories.

Notable

• This is residential/business access space, so an IP here is usually a subscriber line rather than a server. Reverse DNS across the range lands on embarqhsd.net ("Embarq High Speed Data"), still bearing the old brand years after the merger.
• A large eyeball footprint of roughly 173,000 addresses across about 90 prefixes, typical of an ILEC's fragmented DSL pools.
• Some of the space is assigned to institutional customers on the same plant, so not every IP is a household.

Interesting

• The name is a fossil record of two acquisitions. Embarq was spun off from Sprint as a standalone local-telephone company in 2006, then acquired by CenturyTel in 2009 to form CenturyLink. The AS handle still says EMBARQ.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.68.238.0/24
• 184.0.144.0/24
• 184.7.19.0/24
• 184.7.25.0/24
• 184.7.29.0/24
• 184.7.30.0/24
• 205.244.110.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS22561 CenturyLink Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS22561 CenturyLink Communications, LLC