Autonomous system
AS12175 YELMNET
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Rainier Connect
isp residential eyeball legacy
Rainier Connect is a Washington state broadband provider, announcing address space that carries the names of at least three previous owners.
What it's used for
- Residential and business internet across small communities in Washington. Sampled addresses answer under
ellensburg.fairpoint.net, split intodynamic-andstatic-names.
Notable
- The registry is a fossil record. Most blocks are registered to FairPoint Communications under netnames like
FAIRPOINT-ELLTEL-243-240-0andFAIRPOINT-YCOM-227-104—ELLTELfor Ellensburg Telephone andYCOMfor Yelm, two of the operating companies FairPoint once owned. One block is still registered to Yelm Telephone Company directly under the netnameCCI-WA, and only one is registered to Rainier Connect itself. - The AS handle is
YELMNET, older than every one of those names. - A single observed BGP neighbour for 16,000 addresses across 15 prefixes. This network has exactly one way in.
Interesting
- FairPoint was itself absorbed into Consolidated Communications in 2017, which is what the
CCI-WAnetname points at. So a subscriber address here can be registered to a company that was bought by a company that was bought by a company, while answering to reverse DNS named after a town, on an AS named after a different town.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS20394 | Rainier Connect | 1,047 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 15 prefixes · 16.13K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12175- Registry name
- YELMNET
- Registrant
- Rainier Connect
- Abuse contact
- noc@getlightcurve.com
- Registered
- 1999-04-12
- Last changed
- 2024-06-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Consolidated Communications - Northwest (TGWA)
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- Website
- https://www.consolidated.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 · 18 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS12175
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 18 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS12175
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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