AS11435 BENEVA-1

BENEVA-1 belongs to Beneva, the Quebec City mutual insurer formed from the merger of La Capitale and SSQ Insurance. It is a corporate enterprise AS: a small block of self-owned space announced for the company's own offices and services.

What it's used for

RIS shows 7 IPv4 prefixes and 1,536 addresses in total, no IPv6, and two observed neighbours. The space is 204.19.212.0/22 plus 45.33.200.0/23, announced both as aggregates and as their component /24s — routine more-specific announcements for multihoming, not a fragmented inventory. Every prefix is registered in ARIN to Beneva itself, under the handles BENEVA-01 and BENEVA-02. Holder, registrant and announcer are the same organisation, so none of the leased-space or third-party-registrant patterns apply.

Reverse DNS is where the corporate history shows through. Addresses resolve to poste005.capitale.qc.ca, poste005.lacapitale.com and poste005.lunique.qc.ca — three of the group's pre-merger brands (La Capitale, and L'Unique, its general-insurance arm) still living in the PTR zones. Poste is French for workstation, and a sequentially numbered posteNNN.<brand> template across a /24 is what an internal corporate estate looks like when its outbound addresses are given generic names.

Notable

Two neighbours means two transit providers and nothing more: no peering fabric, no customers, nothing sold on. This is a company's internet edge, not a network business.

Interesting

The rDNS lags the brand by years. Beneva has been the public name since the 2020 merger, yet the reverse zones still answer for lacapitale.com and lunique.qc.ca. PTR records are a reliable archaeological record of corporate mergers precisely because nobody has a reason to rename them.