Autonomous system
AS13536 TVC-AS1
Residential ARIN NSP
Summary
FirstLight Fiber
isp telecom transit
A /15 whose registrant is the registry itself, announced alongside two colleges' own blocks.
What it's used for
- A regional fibre carrier. 315,648 addresses across 114 IPv4 prefixes, fifty-five IPv6 prefixes, and 227 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
143.66.0.0/15is netnameNET143, registered toVarious Registries (Maintained by ARIN).150.155.0.0/16is netnameREV-CAYUGA, registered to a community college.66.109.56.0/21is registered to a college under a netname that is just its address.- The carrier's own blocks are numbered
FLNET-15,FLNET-16,FLNET-26,FLNET-31,FLNET-40,FLNET-45,FLNET-49andFLNET-52. - Sampled names are mostly
216-179-63-255.static.firstlight.net; one isisda01.routable.bestweb.net.
Interesting
- A registrant naming several registries collectively is early address space that predates modern ownership records. Nobody holds it in the modern sense; the registry maintains it because the original allocation structure no longer exists.
- The numbered
FLNETseries counts allocations rather than describing them, so the gaps between 15 and 52 are blocks that went elsewhere or were returned. - One reverse name still answers under an acquired provider's domain with
routableas a label, a distinction that mattered when a customer had to be told which of their addresses reached the internet.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.87 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.33 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange New York | New York, United States | 198.32.118.13 |
| Boston Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.108.236.78 |
| Digital Realty New York Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 206.126.115.172 |
| Massachusetts Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.53.143.36 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 183 downstream and 230 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 111 prefixes · 312K addresses IPv6 55 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 166 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13536- Registry name
- FLASN-13536
- Registrant
- FirstLight Networks, LLC
- Abuse contact
- ipabuse@firstlight.net
- Registered
- 1999-06-30
- Last changed
- 2026-04-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- FirstLight Fiber
- Also known as
- TVC Albany Inc. / Tech Valley Communications
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS13536:AS-CONE- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- http://www.firstlight.net
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
- 45% valid · 57 valid, 69 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 61 authorising AS13536
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 92% registered · 116 of 126 announcements 5 other origin
- Route objects
- 163 naming AS13536
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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