Autonomous system
AS10750 MARK-TWAIN
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Mark Twain Rural Telephone Co.
isp enterprise legacy
MARK-TWAIN is Mark Twain Rural Telephone Co., an incumbent rural telephone company serving northeast Missouri — the Mark Twain country the name refers to. Like most rural telcos of its generation, it grew from switched voice into broadband and now runs a small eyeball network of its own.
What it's used for
This is residential and small-business internet access. RIS observes 17 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 15,616 addresses, 1 IPv6 prefix (2605:2940::/32), and 7 observed neighbours — a handful of upstreams, no peering business.
The reverse DNS is a textbook subscriber network: nearly every sampled address resolves to an auto-generated PTR of the form 199.127.48.5.dsl.marktwain.net or 67.221.204.5.marktwain.net. Machine-generated PTRs that simply embed the address are what an operator produces when it has to name thousands of dynamically assigned customer lines and nobody is going to name them individually. The dsl label names the access technology on those particular pools, which for a rural incumbent means copper-delivered broadband to homes and farms; the un-labelled marktwain.net pools are the rest of the access and infrastructure space.
Two hosts break the pattern and are worth noting: mail.teammelvin.com, a customer's own domain parked on the operator's space, and huck.drac.marktwain.net — a DRAC is a Dell server's out-of-band management controller, so that is an internal server, named after Huckleberry Finn.
Notable
Around 15,600 addresses across 17 scattered prefixes, assembled from several different /8s, is the classic accretion pattern of a small telco that has picked up address space in small grants over decades rather than in one allocation.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.171 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 15.62K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10750- Registry name
- MARK-TWAIN
- Registrant
- Mark Twain Rural Telephone Co.
- Abuse contact
- network-abuse@marktwain.coop
- Registered
- 2018-06-19
- Last changed
- 2024-02-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Mark Twain Rural Telephone
- Also known as
- MTRTC
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS10750:AS-CONE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://portal.marktwain.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
- 100% valid · 18 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 23 authorising AS10750
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 18 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS10750
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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