Autonomous system
AS14559 BRTCC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation Inc.
isp telecom infrastructure
Two different addresses answer with the same hostname, and that hostname holds only three parts of an address.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone cooperative's internet network. 8,192 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Both blocks carry the netname
BRTCC, registered toBallard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation Inc. - Two of six sampled addresses returned a name, and both answered the same:
67-216-112-brtc.net. - The addresses queried were
67.216.119.255and67.216.123.254, neither of which matches the numbers in the name they returned.
Interesting
- A reverse name carrying three parts of an address rather than four identifies a block, not a host. Every address in the
/20answers with the base of the range, so a lookup tells you which allocation an address belongs to and nothing more. It satisfies the tools that insist on an answer without maintaining eight thousand records. - The numbers in the name do not match either address queried, which will look like a misconfiguration to anyone checking that a name maps back to the address it came from. Some mail systems reject on exactly that test.
- The domain drops a letter from the netname, so the cooperative is
BRTCCin the registry andbrtcin DNS. Four letters fit a domain better than five. - Two
/20s, one netname, two neighbours: a cooperative with exactly what it needs and no history to explain.
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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 2026-10-18, 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 · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14559- Registry name
- BRTCC
- Registrant
- Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation Inc.
- Abuse contact
- sjones@brtc.net
- Registered
- 2007-03-15
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14559
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS14559
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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