Autonomous system
AS11601 PICANOC-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Reseau Picanoc.net Inc.
isp legacy
PICANOC-AS is Réseau Picanoc.net Inc., a rural broadband network in western Quebec built as a public/private venture between the MRC de Pontiac, the MRC de la Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and the region's school boards to reach communities the incumbent carriers skipped.
What it's used for
Regional last-mile internet access for homes, businesses and public institutions across the Pontiac and Vallée-de-la-Gatineau county municipalities, north-west of Gatineau. The routing footprint matches that description exactly: two announced v4 prefixes, 5,120 addresses, no IPv6, and a single observed BGP neighbour. One upstream and a five-figure address count is the shape of an access network that buys transit and hands the addresses to end users, not of anything wholesale.
Notable
The prefix registrants section is the interesting part, and it is an exoneration rather than a red flag. 68.171.64.0/20 — the larger of the two blocks — is registered not to Picanoc but to the Western Quebec School Board, and the sampled reverse DNS on it resolves to mapnet.wqsb.qc.ca. That looks like third-party space until you know the network's origin story: the school boards were founding partners in the venture, so the AS carrying a partner institution's own registered block is corporate history, not address brokerage. The smaller 162.223.44.0/22 is registered to Picanoc itself.
Interesting
The split is a neat illustration of a rule this dataset keeps re-learning: a registrant that differs from the announcing holder is only suspicious when the registrants are unrelated. Here they are the same project.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS30336 | Telecommunications Xittel inc. | 120 |
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 2 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11601- Registry name
- PICANOC-AS
- Registrant
- Reseau Picanoc.net Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuseinternet@maskatel.qc.ca
- Registered
- 2007-05-23
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11601
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS11601
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: 448 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