AS11207 BOSTON-GLOBE-NETWORK-01

BOSTON-GLOBE-NETWORK-01 is held by Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, the Boston, Massachusetts publisher of The Boston Globe and Boston.com. Despite the low AS number, the ARIN record for this ASN was registered in January 2022 — this is a modern corporate network, not a relic.

What it's used for

Enterprise networking for a newspaper and digital-media business: corporate offices, editorial and production systems, and the origin side of its publishing platforms. The routing is small and tidy — 8 announced IPv4 prefixes over 2,048 addresses, no IPv6, and 4 observed BGP neighbours. Four neighbours against a couple of thousand addresses is an end-site multihoming for resilience, not a network selling connectivity to anyone.

Notable

Every announced prefix is registered to LVLT-ORG-198-112 — Level 3 (now Lumen) address space, not space held by the Globe itself. That is provider-assigned addressing: the publisher takes a block from its carrier and announces it under its own AS number. It is a normal enterprise arrangement, and it is worth naming explicitly because a registrant that differs from the AS holder is elsewhere a warning sign. Here it resolves cleanly to a single upstream carrier rather than to a scatter of unrelated third parties.

Interesting

The announcement set is mostly /23s with several of them also split into their constituent /24s (198.115.78.0/23 alongside 198.115.78.0/24 and 198.115.79.0/24, and the same for 198.115.82.0/23). Advertising both the aggregate and its halves is a standard hedge against upstream filtering while still allowing per-/24 path selection across the multihomed links.