Autonomous system
AS14749 RUSSEPB
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Russellville Electric Plant Board
isp telecom government
Two municipal utilities share this network, and one of them writes every address backwards in DNS.
What it's used for
- A municipal electric utility's broadband network. 4,352 addresses across six IPv4 prefixes plus
2606:fbc0::/32of IPv6, with five observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Five blocks are registered to
Russellville Electric Plant BoardunderREPBand three address-derived netnames. 50.30.120.0/23is registered toHopkinsville Electric Systemunder the netname50-30-112-0-20, which names a larger parent block.- All eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, under two domains:
epbnet.comanswersnet-162-212-138-0.epbnet.com, whilehesenergy.netanswers128-120-30-50.hesenergy.net.
Interesting
- Those second names are the address in reverse order. Reverse DNS queries are built from a backwards address, and somebody generating this zone kept the order the query arrived in instead of flipping it back. Every subscriber of that utility has a hostname that reads right to left.
- Two neighbouring towns' utilities sharing one AS, one address range and one routing policy is municipal broadband economics in a single record: neither is large enough to do this alone, and the registry shows exactly where one ends and the other begins.
- Eighteen out of eighteen addresses answering, including the first and last of each block, is a fully populated reverse zone, generated rather than curated.
- A
/32of IPv6 for a two-town network is provider-sized space, which is what these utilities now are.
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 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14749- Registry name
- RUSSEPB
- Registrant
- Russellville Electric Plant Board
- Abuse contact
- moconers@lightchange.com
- Registered
- 2010-09-13
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 11 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS14749
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 25 naming AS14749
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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