Autonomous system
AS14955 N-V-C - Northern Valley Communications LLC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Northern Valley Communications LLC
isp telecom infrastructure
Five prefixes, one registrant, one upstream, and reverse names that write every address backwards.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone company's broadband network. 22,528 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- All five blocks are registered to
Northern Valley Communications LLCwith aNOCcontact, under netnamesNOVC,NOVC-02,NOVC-03andNOVC-04. - Two adjacent
/20s,64.68.160.0/20and64.68.176.0/20, share the plainNOVCnetname; the numbered ones came later. - Seven of fifteen sampled addresses returned a name, every one of the form
0.104.35.66.nvc.netand254.187.68.64.nvc.net.
Interesting
- Reversing the octets makes the label match the order used by the reverse lookup itself, so generating the zone is a copy rather than a transformation. It is the cheapest scheme to implement and the hardest to read aloud.
- The numbering tells the acquisition order without needing a date. The unnumbered block came first, and each later purchase took the next integer, so the netnames are a timeline.
- One neighbour carrying 22,528 addresses means one upstream. For a cooperative in a thinly populated county there may not be a second fibre route to buy, and the redundancy that exists is inside the provider's own network rather than in the routing table.
- Five announcements for five allocations is a network that has never needed to split a block for traffic engineering, which is the quiet luxury of having exactly one exit.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS13576 | SDN Communications | 2,459 |
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 5 prefixes · 22.53K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14955- Registry name
- N-V-C
- Registrant
- Northern Valley Communications LLC
- Abuse contact
- noc@corp.nvc.net
- Registered
- 2000-02-29
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 38 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 41 authorising AS14955
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 38 of 38 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS14955
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