Autonomous system
AS14272 MCPC-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
MCPc
business enterprise
A netname that marks the block as the public one, implying everything else is not.
What it's used for
- An IT services and equipment company's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
198.178.232.0/24, carrying the netnameMCPC-PUBLIC-1and registered to the company. - That netname states which side of the network the block sits on and adds a counter.
- The AS handle is
MCPC-ASN, the company's initials with the record type appended. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Labelling a block public is only worth doing when there is a private counterpart to distinguish it from, so the netname quietly documents an internal numbering scheme that is not visible here. The counter says this is the first of them.
- Both identifiers append a category rather than a location or a function, which is a filing habit: the name says what kind of record this is, not what is inside it.
- A company whose business is deploying and managing other organisations' equipment keeps a small public footprint of its own, which is the shape here.
- Two upstreams, no IPv6, and nothing published in the reverse DNS on the one block that is explicitly meant to be seen from outside.
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 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14272- Registry name
- MCPC-ASN
- Registrant
- MCPc Inc.
- Abuse contact
- cbohatka@mcpc.com
- Registered
- 2014-01-21
- Last changed
- 2014-01-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14272
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14272
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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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