Autonomous system
AS10692 DLS-LITH - DLS Internet Services, Inc
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
DLS Internet Services, Inc
isp hosting legacy
DLS-LITH is DLS Internet Services (trading as DLS Communications), a privately held Illinois provider headquartered in Lake in the Hills, north-west of Chicago. RIS observes 6 announced IPv4 prefixes covering roughly 36,864 addresses, no IPv6, and 6 BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
DLS is a mixed access-and-hosting provider: it sells fixed wireless, DSL and circuit-based internet access, hosted VoIP and unified communications, and runs colocation and dedicated-server space out of two Chicago-metro data centers, including one at 216 W. Jackson Blvd. The routing matches. Announcements are four sizeable aggregates (209.242.0.0/18, 66.117.160.0/19, 216.145.224.0/19, 216.180.160.0/20) plus two /24s pulled out for traffic engineering, and reverse DNS is first-party throughout: infrastructure names like dnscache3.dls.net and f8-22.cr2.lith.dls.net alongside generic templated customer names under rev.dls.net. The lith in that router name and in the AS handle is the company's Lake in the Hills home site.
Notable
Six upstreams against ~37k addresses is a well-multi-homed regional provider, not a carrier. The generic per-address rDNS covers customer assignments, but it names an addressing convention rather than a customer type — the company serves both homes and businesses, and the sampled names do not distinguish which is which, so the space is best read as a mixed regional service-provider network.
Interesting
DLS launched in the 1990s and its address holdings reflect that: three separate legacy /18–/19 blocks in the 66.x, 209.x and 216.x ranges, more space than a company of its headcount could obtain today.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-07, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 25 prefixes · 34.56K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10692- Registry name
- DLS-LITH
- Registrant
- DLS Internet Services, Inc
- Abuse contact
- netops@noc.dls.net
- Registered
- 1997-10-28
- Last changed
- 2007-03-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- DLS-LITH
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
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, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10692
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 6 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS10692
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: 454 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-11-08. 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