Autonomous system
AS10538 FWB-ALASKA-1
Residential ARIN
Summary
TelAlaska
isp legacy
A rural Alaskan telephone and broadband company. The handle FWB-ALASKA-1 is opaque, but the reverse DNS settles it immediately: every sampled address answers under arctic.net, which is TelAlaska's consumer internet brand.
What it's used for
Residential and business broadband access across some of the most remote communities in the United States. RIS sees 3 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 12,544 addresses (209.124.128.0/19, 67.59.96.0/20 and a /24), no IPv6, and one observed neighbour.
The PTRs are the useful part. Names like 67-59-96-005.broadband.nome.arctic.net and 209-124-144-005.broadband.snpn.arctic.net are per-community subscriber pools, each tagged with the town it serves, and the IP-in-the-hostname pattern is the standard giveaway of dynamically assigned access space rather than servers. 198.51.13.5 resolving to ns1.arctic.net shows the same AS also holds the operator's own infrastructure. So this is an eyeball network: the addresses terminate on customers' modems, not on hosted machines.
Notable
TelAlaska has served rural Alaska since the late 1960s and reaches villages that no other carrier does. The single observed neighbour is normal for a network at the end of a very long haul: connectivity into bush Alaska arrives over a small number of expensive paths, so there is nobody local to peer with.
Interesting
Nome's addresses appearing in the global table at all depends on subsea fibre reaching the Bering Strait coast. Broadband there is a much younger thing than the ASN carrying it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS8047 | GENERAL COMMUNICATION, INC. | 178 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 11.26K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10538- Registry name
- FWB-ALASKA-1
- Registrant
- TelAlaska
- Abuse contact
- abuse@arctic.net
- Registered
- 2002-11-14
- Last changed
- 2024-12-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10538
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 3 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS10538
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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