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Autonomous system

AS14155 RURAL-TELEPHONE-SVCCO

Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP

IPv4 addresses 52.74K 17 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 3 5 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Rural Telephone Service Company

United States · AI-generated

isp telecom infrastructure

Two brands, two entirely different reverse naming schemes, and a netname carrying the year it was filed.

What it's used for

  • A rural telephone cooperative's network. 52,736 addresses across 17 IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2606:a200::/32, with eight observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

  • Its own blocks carry RURALTEL, RURALTEL2013 and RULC, registered to RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
  • Two carry LVLT-RTSC-3-8-36-240 and LVLT-RTSC-3-8-39-240, registered to the cooperative under a carrier's naming scheme.
  • Three carry LPL-141--NEXTEC-1-8-42-80, LPL-141--NEXTEC-1-8-42-88 and KFN-RURALTELEPHONE, registered to NEX-TECH.
  • Seven of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, in two forms: 254.111.210.198.nex-tech.com and p254n23.ruraltel.net.

Interesting

  • The two reverse schemes have nothing in common. One writes the address backwards with dots, which is the reverse-lookup form with a domain glued on the end. The other compresses it to a letter, the host number, another letter and the subnet. Both are generated, both are correct, and they came from different engineers.
  • RURALTEL2013 carries the year it was registered while the older RURALTEL does not, so the registry records which blocks arrived in the second wave.
  • The doubled hyphen in the carrier netnames is a template joining an empty field, preserved because nothing checks the format.
  • Eight neighbours for a cooperative this size. Rural carriers pool transit through shared arrangements, and each of those counts separately.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

3 upstream, 5 downstream and 12 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS13329Kansas Fiber Network, LLC493
AS3356Level 3 Parent, LLC303
AS174Cogent Communications, LLC261

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 17 prefixes · 52.74K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America18

Registry

Allocation record

ARIN · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS14155
Registry name
RURAL-TELEPHONE-SVCCO
Registrant
Rural Telephone Service Co, Inc.
Abuse contact
areiter@areiter.com
Registered
1999-10-29
Last changed
2025-07-08
Allocation
assigned

Declared

PeeringDB profile

self-reported
Name
Rural Telephone Service Co
Also known as
Nex-Tech
Network type
Cable/DSL/ISP
Scope
North America
Traffic ratio
Heavy Inbound
Peering policy
Restrictive
IRR as-set
AS14155:AS-ALL
Website
https://www.nex-tech.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

Full detail
RPKI
59% valid · 10 valid, 7 with no ROA
ROAs
11 authorising AS14155
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
Route objects
20 naming AS14155

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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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

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