AS11076 COMMUNITY-COMPUTER-SERVICE-INC

COMMUNITY-COMPUTER-SERVICE-INC is a generic-sounding handle for a specific business: Community Computer Service, Inc. of 15 Hulbert Street, Auburn, New York, which trades as MEDENT — an electronic health record, patient-portal and practice-management software vendor serving medical practices, in business since 1968. Every ARIN contact on the ASN is an @medent.com address, which is what settles the identity.

What it's used for

The company's own internet presence and the systems its customers connect to. AS11076 announces a single IPv4 prefix, 65.114.41.0/24 — 256 addresses — with no IPv6, and RIS observes two BGP neighbours.

That is the classic dual-homed enterprise shape, and the motive is clear from the business. MEDENT's software is used by thousands of clinicians across the Northeast, and the vendor operates the hosting, interfaces and support connections that sit behind it: lab and pharmacy interfaces, clinical-data exchange, patient portal access and remote support into practice sites. Those endpoints are configured, firewalled and allowlisted by counterparties all over the healthcare ecosystem. Once your IP addresses are baked into other organisations' allowlists, renumbering becomes a project — so you take a provider-independent /24, run your own AS, and announce it to two upstreams.

Notable

The prefix is registered to the handle 65-114-41-0-24 — a network handle named after the block itself rather than after some unrelated party. Announcer and registrant are the same organisation. There is no sign here of the leased-address pattern, where a small AS originates /24s registered to a scatter of third parties.

Interesting

Small address count, two upstreams, healthcare software behind it: this is a good example of why an AS number is a poor proxy for network size. The whole visible footprint is 256 addresses, but what sits behind them reaches over a thousand medical practices.