Autonomous system
AS14296 SPRINGFD - Spring Fire Department
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Spring Fire Department
government infrastructure
A fire department with its own autonomous system number and an IPv6 block to go with it.
What it's used for
- An emergency services network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix alongside an IPv6
2602:80e:8000::/44, with one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The IPv4 block is
104.36.227.0/24, carrying the netnameSPRINGFD-V4-1and registered to the department. - That netname marks the address family explicitly, which implies a matching record for the other one.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Running an autonomous system is not what a fire department normally does. It means dispatch and radio systems that have to keep working when one provider fails, and the number is what makes changing providers possible without renumbering anything.
- The IPv6 allocation is far larger than anything the IPv4 side suggests, which is the standard shape for a recent request and gives room for per-station and per-vehicle addressing.
- Marking the address family in the netname is a small discipline that pays off later: the two families end up in different registries at different times, and matching labels are how they get found together.
- One observed neighbour beside two address families is the part worth watching for a network whose purpose is availability.
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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS33662 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 94 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-04, 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 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14296- Registry name
- SPRINGFD
- Registrant
- Spring Fire Department
- Abuse contact
- james.singleton@springfd.org
- Registered
- 2022-01-07
- Last changed
- 2022-01-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS14296
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS14296
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: 453 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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