Autonomous system
AS14905 CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-VACHVL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
CenturyLink Communications, LLC
isp telecom infrastructure
Every netname says legacy, every reverse name starts with a state code, and three different domains serve one small network.
What it's used for
- A regional slice of a national carrier's broadband network. 22,272 addresses across 18 IPv4 prefixes, with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-VACHVL, and every block that resolved carries a netname of the formCENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-BKL-10, numbered2,6,7,10and14. - All twelve resolved registrations read
CenturyLink Communications, LLCwith no variation. - All eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, across three domains:
va-76-4-84-0.dhcp.embarqhsd.net,va-184-2-132-0.sta.centurylinkservices.netand184-2-139-254.dia.static.centurylink.net. - The labels distinguish
dhcp,dyn,sta,diaandstaticas separate categories.
Interesting
- Carving one AS number per legacy region and naming it after the acquired company is how a carrier absorbs a purchase without renumbering anything. The handle ends in a place code, so the AS is a geographic shard.
- The state abbreviation on the front of nearly every label is provisioning metadata that will outlive its accuracy. Addresses get reassigned; the two-letter prefix does not follow.
- Five words for two ideas. Whether a line is dynamic or fixed is expressed as
dhcp,dyn,sta,staticordiadepending on which era and which platform turned it up, and all five answer from the same estate. - One neighbour is what an internal shard looks like from outside: it reaches the world through the carrier's own backbone and nowhere else.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS22561 | CenturyLink Communications, LLC | 10 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
This network announces no prefixes we can see.
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14905- Registry name
- CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-EMBARQ-VACHVL
- Registrant
- CenturyLink Communications, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@aup.lumen.com
- Registered
- 2006-09-29
- Last changed
- 2019-10-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14905
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS14905
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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