Autonomous system
AS14043 SCANSOURCE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ScanSource
business enterprise infrastructure
Every address in a block answers with the name of the block's first address.
What it's used for
- A technology distributor's network. 2,048 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with six observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Six of nine sampled addresses answered, and the answers resolve to only three distinct names.
- Each name is the block's own starting address written with dashes, so
204.10.4.128and204.10.4.255both return204-10-4-0.scansourceinc.com. - Two blocks share the netname
SCANSO-BLOCK1and the third carriesSCANSO-BLOCK2, with a network operations role contact on the first two.
Interesting
- A single record covering a whole block, naming it after its first address, is a wildcard. It gives every address a name for the benefit of tools that insist on one, while telling you only which subnet you have reached. As a compromise between publishing everything and publishing nothing it is a reasonable one, and it is rare enough to be worth recognising.
- The side effect is that reverse lookups cannot distinguish machines, which quietly breaks the logging and access rules that assume a name identifies a host.
- Six upstreams for a network of this size is a lot. A distributor's ordering systems talk to thousands of resellers and manufacturers all day, and the connectivity is sized for that rather than for the address count.
- The netnames number the blocks in the order they arrived rather than by address.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 6 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14043- Registry name
- SCANSOURCE
- Registrant
- ScanSource, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- networkteam@scansource.com
- Registered
- 1999-10-08
- Last changed
- 2017-12-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14043
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS14043
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere