Autonomous system
AS14485 ST-FRANCOIS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
R.M. of St. François Xavier
government isp business
A rural municipality's AS, with the addresses held by the broadband company it works through.
What it's used for
- Rural broadband for a Manitoba municipality. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS is named for a rural municipality while
104.224.56.0/22is registered toRural Connections Manitoba Ltd. - That block's netname is
RURAL CONNECTIONS MANITOBA, written with spaces. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- Netnames almost never contain spaces. The field grew out of a time when records were read by simple tools that split text on whitespace, so the convention is dashes, and a name with spaces in it is the mark of somebody filling in a form without having seen how everyone else fills it in.
- A municipality holding an AS number is what happens when commercial providers decline to build. The council either builds itself or partners with a small company, and the routing identity ends up with one party while the addresses sit with the other.
- Two upstreams for a rural network is more redundancy than many small providers manage, and it matters more here, because for the farms on the other end this is likely to be the only option rather than one of several.
- Address space from a range issued late in the life of IPv4 means the build is recent, whatever the age of the AS number carrying 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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS22682 | Prairie-Sky Wireless | 455 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, 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 · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14485- Registry name
- RURAL-CONNECTION-MANITOBA
- Registrant
- Rural Connections Manitoba Ltd
- Abuse contact
- garth@rcml.ca
- Registered
- 2020-02-14
- Last changed
- 2026-05-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14485
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS14485
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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