Autonomous system
AS14971 PINETEL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Pine Telephone System, Inc.
isp telecom business
Five blocks, four registrants and three different reverse-DNS domains on one small telephone company's network.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone company's internet network. 12,032 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
38.87.96.0/21carriesRALLY-CGNT-NET-2and208.80.80.0/22carriesPINETEL, both registered toPine Telephone System, Inc.23.168.96.0/23carries the netnameNET23, registered toAmerican Registry for Internet Numbers.24.223.57.0/24carries the netnameGOLDENDALE, registered toHTC.- The lookup for
38.159.128.0/19failed, so nothing is known about that record. - Seven of fifteen sampled addresses returned a name, across
helixtel.com,pinetel.comandintertech.net.
Interesting
- Three reverse-DNS domains on five blocks is a company operating under several brands, or one that bought others and kept their zones running. Renaming a customer's reverse record breaks nothing and helps nobody, so the old names stay.
- A block registered to the address registry itself is space the registry still holds on paper. It is being announced anyway, which happens when the assignment below it was never reflected upward.
- A netname that is a town name, on space registered to a different company entirely, is the clearest possible statement of where a
/24goes and who it belongs to. - The
38range and the24range come from opposite ends of address history, and both are here.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.107 |
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 5 prefixes · 12.03K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14971- Registry name
- PINETEL
- Registrant
- Pine Telephone System, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- chriss@rallynet.us
- Registered
- 2007-07-03
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 3 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS14971
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS14971
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: 440 networks and 1,773 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