AS11089 ERGON-NETWORK

ERGON-NETWORK belongs to Ergon, Inc. of Jackson, Mississippi — the privately held family of companies behind specialty oil and asphalt refining, thermoplastic resins, petrochemicals, propane, terminaling and trucking. ARIN lists the AS to org handle ERGON at P.O. Box 1639, Jackson, the same mailing address the company and its subsidiaries publish.

What it's used for

Ergon's corporate internet edge. The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix — 204.75.140.0/24, 256 addresses — with no IPv6 and 2 observed neighbours in RIS. The /24 is registered to ERGON itself, so unlike many enterprises of this size it holds its own space rather than announcing a provider assignment.

Notable

Two neighbours against one /24 is the textbook shape of a dual-homed enterprise: a company that keeps a second transit provider for resilience, not one that sells connectivity or hosts anyone else. An industrial group with refineries, terminals and a trucking fleet runs almost all of that on private addressing behind firewalls; the public /24 is the small externally-facing surface — mail, VPN termination, corporate web — and there is no reason for it to grow.

Interesting

ERGON is Greek for "work", and the name has been used by unrelated companies on several continents, including an Australian electricity distributor. The registered address is what settles it: this AS is the Mississippi refiner, and nothing about the routing would tell you the difference. Name resemblance is never identification.