Autonomous system
AS11970 ETEL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
e-Tel, LLC
isp legacy
ETEL is e-Tel, LLC, a locally owned telecommunications company at 1515 Broadway Street in Paducah, western Kentucky. It sells telephone service and fibre and DSL internet access in the Paducah area, along with web and email hosting and PBX services.
What it's used for
- Local access networking. The AS announces exactly one prefix,
207.162.160.0/19— 8,192 addresses — registered in ARIN to e-Tel, LLC itself. Holder and registrant match, so this is the company's own address space, not anyone else's. - A
/19from a competitive local exchange carrier of this size is the subscriber and service pool: customer access, the company's hosted mail and web offering, and its own infrastructure. - No IPv6 is announced from this AS.
Notable
- Three observed neighbours. A small number of upstreams against 8,000 addresses is the access-network shape — the addresses go to customers, not to peering relationships. A carrier with a wholesale business would show orders of magnitude more neighbours for the same address count.
- Nothing about the inventory is unusual: one aggregate, one registrant, one RIR. Small regional ISPs are the most common thing in this AS range and this is a clean example of one.
Interesting
- ARIN registered the ASN in 1999 and e-Tel still holds it, which makes this one of the genuinely long-lived operators here rather than a recycled number — a distinction worth checking rather than assuming from the low AS number.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paducah Internet Exchange | Paducah, United States | 149.112.114.14 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS23248 | Paducah Power System | 66 |
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 · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11970- Registry name
- ETEL
- Registrant
- e-Tel, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vci.net
- Registered
- 1999-02-17
- Last changed
- 2014-08-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- e-Tel
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.etelonline.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 · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS11970
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS11970
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