AS11936 MARATHON-CHEESE

MARATHON-CHEESE is exactly what it says: Marathon Cheese Corporation of 304 East Street, Marathon, Wisconsin, a cheese packaging company that cuts and packs product for major dairy brands. It is a manufacturer's own network, with no service-provider function.

What it's used for

RIS shows one IPv4 prefix, 216.116.144.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours. The prefix is registered in ARIN as MCHEESE-BLK-1 to Marathon Cheese Corporation itself, so the announcing party and the registrant are the same company and the space is entirely first-party. A single self-registered /24 announced to two upstreams is the textbook shape of an enterprise that wants provider independence and redundancy for its own sites: plants, offices, VPN and mail. Nothing here carries anyone else's traffic. A network selling connectivity or hosting would show many more neighbours; two means two carriers, no customers.

Notable

The low AS number is not evidence of an early-internet network. ARIN registered this ASN to Marathon Cheese in December 2018, so it is recycled number space, and the company's routed presence is recent even though the business is long-established. This range has been reissued heavily, and the registration date is the only reliable guide.

An ASN and portable address space are more than most food manufacturers of this size run. The likeliest driver is multi-site plant connectivity that must survive a carrier change without renumbering.