Autonomous system
AS11525 HRTC
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Hancock Rural Telephone Corp. (NineStar Connect)
isp legacy
HRTC is Hancock Rural Telephone Corporation, which does business as NineStar Connect — a member-owned rural utility cooperative in Hancock County, Indiana. It is an eyeball network: the space carries broadband subscribers.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business broadband for rural east-central Indiana. NineStar is a multi-utility co-op (electricity, water, wastewater, telephone, internet) and was an early fibre-to-the-home deployer in the state, serving communities such as Greenfield, Fortville, New Palestine, and Shelbyville.
- RIS sees 7 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling 11,520 addresses, one IPv6 prefix (
2606:5d00::/28), and 8 observed BGP neighbours. Mostly /21s, a handful of upstreams: a small access network, not a carrier.
Notable
- Reverse DNS is what settles the classification, and it names the access technology directly. Sampled addresses answer as
64-184-8-5.publicdhcp.hrtc.net,208-70-40-5.bb.hrtc.net, and74-112-112-5.static.hrtc.net. Apublicdhcppool and abb(broadband) pool alongside astaticrange is the signature of a consumer ISP that also sells fixed addresses to businesses. Two sampled hosts belong to customers rather than the ISP —hancock.hancockcoingov.org(the county government) andsm.fidelityappraisals.com— which is what a local provider's business tier looks like.
Interesting
- One prefix,
168.100.180.0/22, is registered to JCFiber rather than to Hancock. JCFiber is another Indiana rural fibre provider, and NineStar's own history emphasises strategic partnerships with neighbouring cooperatives. A co-op carrying a partner co-op's block fits that pattern far better than any leasing story, though the exact arrangement is not visible in the routing. The remaining prefixes all register to Hancock Internet, and one,63.208.139.0/24, carries the handleHANCOC-LVLT-63-208-139— provider-assigned space from Level 3, which is ordinary upstream allocation rather than third-party space.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.51 |
| FD-IX - Indianapolis | Indianapolis, United States | 206.53.139.43 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 11.52K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11525- Registry name
- HRTC
- Registrant
- Hancock Rural Telephone Corp.
- Abuse contact
- bdowden@ninestarconnect.com
- Registered
- 1998-09-17
- Last changed
- 2024-04-17
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NineStar Connect
- Also known as
- Hancock Rural Telephone Company
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
ARIN::AS-NINESTAR- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://ninestarconnect.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
- 8 authorising AS11525
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS11525
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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