AS6531 COFFEYCAN

COFFEYCAN is registered to Burlington Unified School District #244 in Burlington, Kansas — the county seat of Coffey County. The handle reads as "Coffey County Area Network", and the AS behaves like a shared public-sector network rather than a single school's uplink.

What it's used for

• Announcing a single ARIN /24 (198.186.144.0/24), which is also registered to the school district.
• Reverse DNS across that block resolves under coffeycountyks.org, the Coffey County government domain, in a flat ip-198-186-144-N pattern. The school district holds the registration; the addressing is used across county-area public entities.

Notable

• This is a K-12 institutional network, not a service provider. A single /24 and generically templated rDNS are the signature of an organisation that needed routable space and multihoming, not of one selling connectivity.
• Rural US counties frequently pool network resources across the school district, the county government and the local library, because none of them individually justifies a separate autonomous system. The registrant on paper is often whichever entity did the paperwork.

Interesting

• The ARIN organisation and ASN records both trace to Burlington, Kansas, a town of a few thousand people. Small institutions like this run their own AS mainly to hold their address space independently of any one upstream carrier.