Autonomous system
AS14731 BEAUCE-TELECOM
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Beauce Telecom
isp telecom business
A mail server named at an address ending in 255, which older rules would have forbidden.
What it's used for
- A regional telephone company's network in Canada. 2,304 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- All three blocks carry the identical netname
BEAUCE-TELECOMand the same registrant. - Of nine addresses queried for reverse DNS, one answered:
139.64.213.255returnedsmtp30.beaucetelecom.com. - The blocks come from three widely separated parts of the address range, one of them recent space.
- The AS first appeared in routing on
2007-10-05.
Interesting
- Under the original rules an address ending in 255 was the broadcast address and unusable for a host. Inside a larger block it is an ordinary address, and here it carries a mail server. Plenty of old equipment still refuses such addresses, so assigning one to a service that must be reached from everywhere is a quiet bet that the internet has moved on.
- Naming it thirty implies a numbering scheme with room for at least that many mail servers, which is a lot for a network this size. Numbering usually starts high in a plan and stays there.
- Three identical netnames mean nobody bothered to distinguish the records, so the registry gives no clue which block does what. The addresses are the only index.
- Two upstreams and no IPv6 is the shape of an incumbent that connects reliably and modernises slowly.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.42 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14731- Registry name
- BEAUCE-TELECOM
- Registrant
- Beauce Telecom
- Abuse contact
- info@beaucetelecom.com
- Registered
- 2020-02-11
- Last changed
- 2020-02-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS14731
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS14731
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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