Autonomous system
AS14671 TACONIC - FairPoint Communications
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
FairPoint Communications
isp telecom infrastructure
Three company names in the registry, four reverse domains in the DNS, and two of those domains differ only by a hyphen.
What it's used for
- A regional telephone company's broadband network. 24,576 addresses across 17 IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
TACONIC, and the oldest block still carries the netnameTACONIC-TECHNOLOGY-CORP, registered toTaconic Technology Corp. - Most blocks are registered to
FAIRPOINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.under netnames of the formFAIRPOINT-TACONIC-158-164, several listing aFairpoint Communications Abusecontact. - Four blocks are registered to
Fidium, underCC-4441,CHATHAM-FTTHandVIS-BLOCK. - Six of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, across four domains:
74-209-27-254.xhsi.chhmny.ccidns.net,69-50-37-254-xdsl.chhmny.cci-dns.net,216-212-91-254.mnchnh.fidium.ccidns.netand216-227-59-255.du.berk.com.
Interesting
ccidns.netandcci-dns.netare two registered domains for the same initials, both in service. Someone could not get the first one, or could not remember which they had, and both ended up in the generator.- The labels carry the access technology in the middle:
xhsi,xdsl,ftth,du. A support technician can read the line type straight off the hostname, which is the whole reason the scheme exists. - Two brand names sit between the town code and the domain on some names and not others, so the rebrand was applied per block rather than across the zone.
- Three registrant names in one estate traces an acquisition and a later retail rebrand, and the oldest name survives on the block that predates both.
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 2026-11-11, 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 · 24.58K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14671- Registry name
- TACONIC
- Registrant
- FairPoint Communications
- Abuse contact
- abuse@consolidated.net
- Registered
- 2000-01-24
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Consolidated Communications - Taconic
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- Website
- https://www.consolidated.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
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 28 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14671
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 28 of 28 announcements
- Route objects
- 28 naming AS14671
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-12. 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