AS11755 ANDREWS-ASN01

ANDREWS-ASN01 is Andrews Distributing Company of North Texas, LLC — a family-owned beer and spirits wholesaler headquartered at 2730 Irving Blvd, Dallas, Texas. It is a single-purpose corporate AS, not a service provider.

What it's used for

Enterprise multihoming for the distributor's own corporate network. RIS shows exactly one IPv4 prefix, 216.183.103.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and a single observed BGP neighbour. That prefix is registered directly to Andrews Distributing under org handle ADNTL at the same Dallas address, so the space is self-held rather than leased or reassigned. One prefix and one neighbour is the smallest meaningful shape a network can have: enough to hold its own address space and speak BGP to an upstream, with nothing that looks like transit, hosting, or subscriber access anywhere in the inventory.

Notable

The handle is a trap worth naming. ANDREWS-ASN01 reads like Joint Base Andrews, and the same range holds other defence-sounding handles that turn out to be financial institutions. It is neither: the registrant address, the org record, and the company itself all point to a beverage distributor that runs roughly a million square feet of warehouse space across North and South Texas and delivers tens of millions of cases a year. The network exists to connect distribution centres and back-office systems.

Interesting

The low AS number says nothing about the age of this network. ARIN registered the ADNTL org in March 2023 and assigned AS11755 to it in April 2023 — both dates modern, which is what distinguishes a genuine reissue from a legacy holder. This is thoroughly recycled space wearing a 1990s-era number.