Autonomous system
AS10804 MFNM-AS - Matawa First Nations Management
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Matawa First Nations Management
isp legacy
MFNM-AS belongs to Matawa First Nations Management, the non-profit tribal-council service organisation for the nine Matawa First Nations of northern Ontario. It is the AS behind Rapid Lynx, the community-owned fibre network being built to connect remote fly-in communities. RIS sees 1 IPv4 prefix (256 addresses), 1 IPv6 prefix, and 11 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
Community broadband and the organisation's own services. The entire IPv4 footprint is a single 23.174.216.0/24. The IPv6 side is the one that says what this network is for: 2607:a3c0::/32 is an ISP-scale allocation, the size a provider takes when it intends to hand /48s or /56s down to subscriber premises, not something an office network needs. Rapid Lynx is designed to deliver symmetrical gigabit service to homes and businesses in communities such as Eabametoong, Marten Falls, Webequie, Neskantaga and Nibinamik, over a fibre build of roughly a thousand kilometres, and to remain owned and operated by the First Nations themselves.
Notable
11 neighbours against 256 IPv4 addresses is a lot of peering for a very small announcement, and it fits a network that has done the interconnection work ahead of the subscriber build. The gap between the routed footprint and the scale of the fibre project is the honest headline here: the network is real and interconnected, but what it currently announces is small.
Interesting
Most holders in this ASN range are carriers, banks or universities. This one is an Indigenous-owned non-profit, and it is a first-mile network in the literal sense: the communities it serves had no terrestrial high-speed connectivity at all before the Rapid Lynx build.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.45 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 12 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10804- Registry name
- MFNM-AS
- Registrant
- Matawa First Nations Management
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rapidlynx.ca
- Registered
- 2024-09-04
- Last changed
- 2024-09-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS10804
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS10804
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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