Autonomous system
AS10563 ROCHELLEUTILITIES
Residential ARIN
Summary
Rochelle Municipal Utilities
isp government legacy
A city-owned utility that is also its town's internet provider. Rochelle Municipal Utilities is the municipal utility of Rochelle, Illinois, running electricity, water and water reclamation, and it added a communications division that today delivers fibre broadband. The handle is ROCHELLEUTILITIES.
What it's used for
Municipal broadband access. RIS sees 3 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 768 addresses (204.8.160.0/24, 204.8.162.0/24 and 204.8.165.0/24), no IPv6, and one observed neighbour.
The reverse DNS confirms the role and puts the space in the operator's own hands: sampled addresses answer as 005.rmu165.rochelle.net, 133.rmu165.rochelle.net and 005.rochelle.net. rmu is the utility's own initials, rochelle.net is its own zone, and the numeric-leading names are per-address entries in subscriber space. This is an eyeball network serving homes and businesses in one Illinois city, not a hosting or transit operation.
Notable
The three /24s are non-contiguous slices of 204.8.0.0/16 rather than one block, which is what you get when a small operator picks up space in stages over the years.
RMU is one of a long tail of American municipal utilities that got into the internet business through the same door: it already had poles, conduit, a service territory and a billing relationship with every household in town, so building fibre was an extension of what it did rather than a new venture. Its network began with dial-up and grew into wireless and then fibre.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS54240 | Syndeo Networks, Inc | 174 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10563- Registry name
- ROCHELLEUTILITIES
- Registrant
- Rochelle Municipal Utilities
- Abuse contact
- pbrust@rmu.net
- Registered
- 1997-09-15
- Last changed
- 1997-09-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Rochelle Municipal Utilities
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Website
- http://rmu.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10563
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS10563
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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