AS11046 LITTLE-APPLE

LITTLE-APPLE is Little Apple Technologies, a locally owned fixed-wireless internet provider based in Manhattan, Montana — the "Little Apple" of the Gallatin Valley, not the Kansas town of the same nickname. It announces eight contiguous /24s (2,048 addresses) from 205.149.8.0/21, no IPv6, and is seen with two BGP neighbours.

What it's used for

The company delivers wireless broadband to homes and businesses in the Gallatin Valley and the surrounding rural country south-west of Bozeman, the kind of end-of-the-road locations that fibre and cable never reached, and also does security-camera and low-voltage installation work locally. The address space is the subscriber pool for that service: every sampled address across every announced /24 resolves to a STATIC-<ip>.littleappletech.com name, a uniform provider-generated pattern that is characteristic of customer assignments rather than servers.

Notable

The prefixes are registered to the network handle GALLATIN under Little Apple Technologies' own ARIN org — the handle is named for Gallatin County, not for a different company. That matters, because a set of /24s registered under an unfamiliar name is the shape that usually warrants suspicion of leased or brokered space. Here the registrant, the org and the first-party reverse DNS all agree, so this is plainly a real operator running its own inventory.

Interesting

Two BGP neighbours and a single contiguous /21 is about as small as an independently routed ISP gets. The whole network fits in one aggregate, deaggregated into eight /24s purely for internal segmentation.