Autonomous system
AS11342 PATHWAY
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Pathway Communications
isp hosting legacy
PATHWAY is held by Pathway Communications (pathcom.com), a Toronto provider operating since 1995. It sells business internet, colocation and managed IT services across the Greater Toronto Area, and it is the parent of the Pathway Group, which since 2006 has included the Montreal ISP CitéNet Internet. RIS sees 37 IPv4 prefixes, 50,432 addresses, no IPv6, and 15 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
Access and hosting for Canadian customers, in both flavours. The reverse DNS is unusually informative here and shows two distinct populations. One is end-user access: dial-0005.tor.pathcom.com and dial-1029.tor.pathcom.com in 216.249.8.0/21, rdsl-0005.tor.pathcom.com in 207.188.64.0/19, and ppp05-5.dsl.citenet.net in CitéNet's 209.41.150.0/24 — dial-up and DSL concentrator pools, i.e. subscriber lines. The other is infrastructure: named hosts like ryza.pathcom.com and EgressRouter7.applecreek.pathcom.com, plus generated 66.212.x.tor.pathcom.com blocks that read as provider-assigned server and business space.
Notable
Roughly half the sampled registrants come back as CiteNet Telecom Inc. rather than Pathway (CTI209041128, CITENET-5, CTI206123032). That is not a third-party or leasing tell — CitéNet has been part of the Pathway Group for nearly two decades, and the citenet.net PTRs sit on exactly those blocks. Holder, registrant and hostname all belong to the same corporate group.
Interesting
Fifteen neighbours against fifty thousand addresses says regional ISP, not carrier. The classification is residential because the access pools are the honest signal from the inventory, but hold it loosely: Pathway's own marketing is business-first, the AS clearly carries colocated servers too, and it announces some RIPE-region blocks (185.156.184.0/22, 45.152.56.0/23) our registrant sample did not cover. A single address here may be a home DSL line, a business circuit, or a hosted server.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.16 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 9 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 2026-10-15, 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 · 39.68K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11342- Registry name
- PATHWAY
- Registrant
- Pathway Communications
- Abuse contact
- ping.hu@corp.pathcom.com
- Registered
- 1998-07-13
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 21% valid · 8 valid, 29 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS11342
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 92% registered · 35 of 38 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 91 naming AS11342
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: 442 networks and 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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