Autonomous system
AS12214 RAPIDDSL--WIRELESS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
RapidDSL & Wireless
isp dsl legacy
RapidDSL & Wireless is a US internet provider offering wired and wireless access, as the name says.
What it's used for
- Subscriber internet access from one block,
69.46.240.0/20, 4,096 addresses, registered under the netnameRAPIDDSL--WIRELESS.
Notable
- Three observed BGP neighbours against a single prefix. No IPv6 announced.
- The company name, the AS handle and the netname are all the same string, double hyphen included — the ampersand rendered as
--because registry netnames only take letters, digits and hyphens.
Interesting
- A sampled address,
69.46.251.254, answers as254-251-46-69.rapiddsl.net. The octets are backwards. Reverse DNS lookups are performed against254.251.46.69.in-addr.arpa, with the address reversed, and whoever generated these names built them from that string rather than from the address as a person would write it. It is harmless and it works, but it means reading an address out of one of these hostnames requires reversing it in your head.
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 2026-10-16, 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 · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12214- Registry name
- RAPIDDSL--WIRELESS
- Registrant
- RapidDSL & Wireless
- Abuse contact
- tom@rapiddsl.net
- Registered
- 2005-03-16
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 16 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS12214
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 25 naming AS12214
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