Autonomous system
AS10973 KALAMA
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Scatter Creek InfoNet, Inc.
isp legacy
KALAMA is Scatter Creek InfoNet, the internet arm of two small independent Washington State telephone companies: Tenino Telephone (south of Olympia) and Kalama Telephone (south of Longview). It is a rural eyeball ISP.
What it's used for
RIS sees just 2 announced IPv4 prefixes, 216.128.96.0/21 and 216.128.104.0/21, totalling 4,096 addresses, alongside 6 IPv6 prefixes out of 2604:3700::/32, and 14 observed neighbours. That is a genuinely small network. The address count is the honest measure of its size: two rural exchanges with a few thousand subscribers between them.
The reverse DNS is the clearest evidence of what the space carries. Two of the four sampled addresses are subscriber-facing access ports, ten-calix1-216-128-108-005.tenino.com and kal-calix1-216-128-100-005.kalama.com: per-IP generated PTRs, named after the serving exchange and the Calix access platform behind them, one hostname pattern per telephone company. The other two are infrastructure, scinetdns01.scattercreek.com and scinetloadbal01.scattercreek.com, the operator's own resolver and load balancer. Access hardware in the hostname names the technology, not the customer; what is on the other end of those Calix ports is ordinary residential and small-business broadband.
Notable
- 14 neighbours against only 4,096 IPv4 addresses is a high ratio for a network this small, and suggests deliberate peering rather than a single upstream.
- IPv6 is not just present but actively subnetted: a
/36plus several/48s out of the company's/32, which is more IPv6 engineering than many far larger US ISPs show.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.201 |
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.70 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 10 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 2026-10-30, 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 · 4.10K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10973- Registry name
- KALAMA
- Registrant
- Scatter Creek InfoNet, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- neighorn@scnresearch.com
- Registered
- 1998-02-18
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Scatter Creek InfoNet
- Also known as
- TENKAL
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-SCIN- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.scattercreek.com
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 · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 11 authorising AS10973
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS10973
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: 447 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-30. 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