Autonomous system
AS12097 MASSCOM
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Massillon Cable (MCTV)
isp cable residential legacy
MCTV is a cable operator serving Massillon, Canton and the surrounding Stark County area of northeast Ohio, now part of Armstrong.
What it's used for
- Residential and business cable broadband, TV and phone. The sampled reverse DNS is full of
cable-63-255.sssnet.comandstatic-95-254.sssnet.comnames, which distinguish the dynamic modem pool from statically assigned business space.
Notable
- The
MASSCABLEblocks are registered to Armstrong, the Pennsylvania cable company that acquired MCTV. The netname still says Massillon while the registrant says the buyer. - The reverse DNS uses
sssnet.comrather than any MCTV domain. That was the company's original dial-up and internet brand, and it is still the zone every subscriber address answers under. - One
/22carries the netnameMCTV-GPON-1— GPON is fibre-to-the-premises equipment, so the operator is running fibre alongside the original coaxial plant.
Interesting
- 58,000 addresses for a single county is generous, and it comes from
24.140.0.0/16. The24.0.0.0/8block was handed out to cable operators in the mid-1990s when broadband was new and address space was still cheap, which is why small-town cable companies from that era hold more of it than their subscriber counts would ever justify today.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 58.62K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12097- Registry name
- MASSCOM
- Registrant
- Armstrong
- Abuse contact
- abuse@zoominternet.net
- Registered
- 1999-03-22
- Last changed
- 2026-06-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 26 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 10 authorising AS12097
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 27 of 27 announcements
- Route objects
- 97 naming AS12097
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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