Autonomous system
AS14430 BWFN-PRIME
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
BalsamWest FiberNET, LLC
isp telecom infrastructure
A fibre network carrying a sovereign tribal nation's own address space alongside its own.
What it's used for
- A regional fibre provider's network. 14,080 addresses across 16 IPv4 prefixes, with six observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced. First seen in 2000.
Notable
- Blocks carry
BWFN,BALSAMWEST-CGNT-NET-1andBFL-18, all registered toBalsamWest FiberNET, LLC. 208.68.120.0/21carries the netnameEBCI3, registered toEastern Band of Cherokee Indians.- Five blocks carry the netname
DNET, registered toDnet Internet Services. - The lookup for
64.85.189.0/24failed, so nothing is known about that record. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A tribal nation holding address space in its own name, announced through a local carrier, is how self-determination looks in the routing table. The registration says the addresses belong to the nation; the routing says the fibre belongs to somebody else. Both facts are visible at once.
- Three netname families on one network usually means three companies. Two of the three registrants here are distinct organisations, so this AS is carrying at least two other networks' space as well as its own.
- Not one of eighteen sampled addresses answered a reverse lookup. On an ISP that is unusual, and it suggests the customer-facing addressing lives elsewhere while these blocks serve infrastructure and business circuits.
- Six neighbours on a network this size is well connected for rural fibre, which is usually the whole point of building it.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 18.18K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14430- Registry name
- BWFN-PRIME
- Registrant
- BalsamWest FiberNET, LLC
- Abuse contact
- noc@balsamwest.net
- Registered
- 2011-01-26
- Last changed
- 2024-07-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 16 valid, 33 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS14430
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 48 of 49 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 84 naming AS14430
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: 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