Autonomous system
AS14188 ASHLANDFIBERNETWORK
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Ashland Fiber Network
isp telecom infrastructure
Two blocks, two netnames, and reverse names that pad every part of the address to three figures.
What it's used for
- A community fibre network. 10,240 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
66.241.64.0/19carries the netnameASHLANDFN-1and207.55.232.0/21carriesASHLANDFN-2, both registered toAshland Fiber Network, the second with anAFN Systems Staffcontact.- Two of six sampled addresses returned a name:
066-241-087-254.dynamic.ashlandfiber.netand207-055-237-254.ashlandfiber.net.
Interesting
- Padding each part of the address to three digits makes every hostname the same length, which sorts correctly in a plain text listing. Without the padding, an address ending in nine sorts after one ending in eighty-seven, and anyone who has read a long log file knows why that matters.
- One of the two names carries a
dynamiclabel and the other does not, so the zone distinguishes addresses handed out automatically from those assigned to a customer. That single word is the difference between a residential connection and something a business paid extra for. - Two netnames numbered one and two, on the only two blocks the network holds, is the tidiest possible registry record. Nothing has been transferred, leased or inherited.
- A network named for the town it serves, running its own fibre and its own AS with two upstreams, is a community deciding to be its own carrier rather than waiting for one to arrive.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.46 |
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 2 prefixes · 10.24K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14188- Registry name
- ASHLANDFIBERNETWORK
- Registrant
- Ashland Fiber Network
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ashlandfiber.net
- Registered
- 1999-11-04
- Last changed
- 2014-04-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Ashland Fiber Network
- Also known as
- AFN
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
ARIN::AS-COFA- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://ashlandfiber.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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14188
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 29 naming AS14188
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: 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