Autonomous system
AS14538 HEC-NETWORK - Harrisonburg Electric Commission
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Harrisonburg Electric Commission
government enterprise infrastructure
The block carries the same carrier netname as an unrelated manufacturer elsewhere in this range.
What it's used for
- A municipal electric utility's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
50.205.160.0/24, carrying the netnameCCCH3-4and registered to a cable carrier. - That exact netname appears on a different organisation's block in this same sweep.
- The AS handle is
HEC-NETWORK, the utility's initials and a generic suffix. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Netnames are not required to be unique, and a carrier assigning out of one large range can stamp the same compressed label on every piece of it. Finding it twice on unrelated customers confirms the label describes the carrier's allocation rather than anybody using it.
- Municipal electric commissions are among the oldest public network operators, because the poles and conduit were already theirs. That history is why a small city utility holds an AS number at all.
- Everything identifying the utility sits in the AS record; the addresses themselves are the carrier's and say nothing.
- One upstream on a network run by a public body that also has electricity to keep running.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4922 | Shenandoah Cable Television LLC | 56 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-10, 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
AS14538- Registry name
- HEC-NETWORK
- Registrant
- Harrisonburg Electric Commission
- Abuse contact
- admin@hbgelec.com
- Registered
- 2007-03-15
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14538
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS14538
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: 454 networks and 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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