AS11296 INDEPENDENT-HEALTH

INDEPENDENT-HEALTH is the network of Independent Health Association, Inc., a not-for-profit health insurance plan serving western New York. RIS sees a small enterprise footprint: 2 IPv4 prefixes, 1,024 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours.

What it's used for

The insurer's own corporate IT and the public edge of its member and provider portals. There is no ambiguity in the inventory to resolve: both announced prefixes — 204.124.132.0/22 and the more-specific 204.124.133.0/24 carved out of it — are registered to the netname WNYINDEPENTH (org: Independent Health Association, Inc.), which reads as Western New York Independent Health. Holder, registrant and announcer are one organisation. A /22 announced alongside one of its own /24s is routine traffic engineering, letting a single subnet be steered or preferred independently while the covering route stays up.

Notable

Three observed neighbours is the number that classifies this network. An insurer buys transit; it does not sell it. With only a thousand addresses and a handful of upstreams, this is a leaf network at the edge of the routing graph, and nothing about it resembles hosting, transit or an access ISP. The AS exists so that the organisation can multi-home its own address space — the standard reason a mid-size regulated business runs BGP at all, since availability of member-facing systems is a compliance concern as much as an IT one.

Interesting

The reverse DNS sample came back empty, and that is worth saying plainly: it is a sample, not a finding. Four addresses probed out of 1,024 tells you nothing about whether the zone is delegated, and no inference about the network's posture should be built on it. Everything asserted here rests on the registry and the routing, both of which point the same way.