Autonomous system
AS14453 AS-AKN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS
hosting isp business
Some reverse names have in-addr.arpa sitting in the middle of them, which is a zone file that forgot a trailing dot.
What it's used for
- A hosting and connectivity network. 25,600 addresses across 34 IPv4 prefixes, with 15 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Three blocks carry
NET-AKN, registered toADVANCED KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; several list aCentrilogic IP Techcontact. - Others are registered to
Centrilogic, Inc.,CentriLogicandCENTRILOGICCANADA, under netnames includingCENTRILOGIC-CANADA,CENTRILOGIC-CYandNET-158-247-80-0-2. - Two more belong to different companies entirely:
LCN-13toLANETCO COMPUTER NETWORKS INC.andCAPRIS-GROUPtoCapris Group. - Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, including
0.242.90.209.in-addr.arpa.akn.caandunassigned-119.254.akn.ca.
Interesting
- A PTR target written without a trailing dot is treated as relative and has the zone's origin appended. Somebody wrote the reverse name as it would appear in the reverse tree, the server glued
akn.caonto the end, and the result has answered that way ever since. - Another label announces the address is unassigned. The zone was generated for the whole block and the unused addresses were given names saying so, which is more honest than most.
- Four spellings of the acquiring company across the estate, with the original name still on the oldest blocks. Acquisitions show up in the registry as sediment rather than a rewrite.
- Fifteen neighbours on a network this small is a hosting business, where being reachable cheaply from many directions is the product.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.39 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 1 downstream and 10 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 30 prefixes · 26.37K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14453- Registry name
- AS-AKN
- Registrant
- ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@dacentec.com
- Registered
- 1999-12-14
- Last changed
- 2008-05-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 56 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14453
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 56 of 56 announcements
- Route objects
- 65 naming AS14453
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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