Autonomous system
AS14997 ASCENSION-TEXAS - Ascension Technologies
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Ascension Technologies
business enterprise
The block still belongs to the hospital; the AS number belongs to the health system that absorbed it.
What it's used for
- The network of a hospital now part of a national health system. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
72.48.126.0/24, carrying the netnameGRANDECOM-SETONMEDICALCENTERand registered to the medical centre itself. - The AS handle names the health system's technology arm and a state.
- Three sampled addresses answer as
72-48-126-64.static.grandenetworks.netand similar, under the provider's domain. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and all three returned a name.
Interesting
- The netname joins a regional carrier's name to the hospital's, which is what happens when a provider files the record for a customer and wants both parties findable. It is more useful than either name alone.
- The AS record and the block record describe two different organisations, one the parent and one the site. Consolidation in healthcare happens faster than registry paperwork, and this is what the gap looks like from outside.
- 256 addresses and one upstream is a single-site footprint. Whatever else the health system runs, this number carries one hospital's connection.
- The reverse DNS is generated by the carrier and names nothing about the hospital, so the addresses answer without disclosing what they serve.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS7459 | Grande Communications Networks, LLC | 58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, 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
AS14997- Registry name
- ASCENSION-TEXAS
- Registrant
- Ascension Technologies
- Abuse contact
- ARINadministrators@ascension.org
- Registered
- 2012-09-27
- Last changed
- 2020-02-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14997
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14997
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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