Autonomous system
AS14162 FHLB-PITT
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh
finance business government
One netname is an eighteen digit number, which is a customer record identifier that escaped into public data.
What it's used for
- A wholesale bank's network. 768 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
63.161.8.0/24carries the netnameFON-106751795239492.- The other two blocks carry
SPRINTLINK, a carrier's own name, though all three are registered to the bank. - The AS handle is
FHLB-PITT, initials and a shortened city. - Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Eighteen digits is far more than any allocation needs. It is the size of a key from an internal billing or provisioning database, pasted into a field meant for a human-readable label. Nobody will ever type it, and it will outlive the system that generated it.
- The two carrier-named blocks show the opposite habit: the same provider labelling space with its own product name and nothing else, so several unrelated customers share one string. One extreme identifies the record uniquely and says nothing; the other says one thing and identifies nothing.
- These banks are wholesale institutions that lend to other lenders rather than to the public, which is why a network this small suffices. There is no retail traffic to carry.
- Two upstreams and nothing published in reverse DNS is the right shape for an institution whose counterparties all reach it by arrangement rather than by search.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, 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 · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14162- Registry name
- FHLB-PITT
- Registrant
- FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK of PITTSBURGH
- Abuse contact
- dave.saunders@fhlb-pgh.com
- Registered
- 2013-04-01
- Last changed
- 2013-04-01
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14162
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 2 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS14162
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 2026-10-23. 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