Autonomous system
AS15024 PACKET-WORKS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Packetworks
isp telecom transit
Six blocks, six different registrants, and not one of them is the holder.
What it's used for
- An internet provider's network. Six IPv4 blocks announced from Canada, no IPv6, and twelve observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- No block in the inventory is registered to the holder of this AS. Two belong to a carrier under the netnames
FIBERNETICS-PKT-BLK-1andFIBERNETICS-PKT-BLK-2, and the other four to a consultancy, an automation company, a Catholic district school board and a financial software firm. - Those two carrier netnames carry an abbreviation of this holder's name in the middle, so the carrier labelled them for the customer it issued them to.
- Two sampled addresses answered, both in the form
pkt.64.235.packetworks.net, which embeds only the first two octets of the address. - Twelve neighbours is a high count for a network of this size.
Interesting
- This is what a provider's inventory looks like from the registry side rather than the routing side. Every customer that brought its own address space appears as a separate registrant, and the only thing tying them together is that this AS announces all of them.
- The school board and the financial software firm are the useful ones. Those are end organisations rather than networks, and their presence says the operator carries other people's routes rather than only selling addresses out of its own pool.
- Naming a host after two octets rather than four means the reverse name identifies the block, not the address. Every address in a
/20under that scheme answers with the same string. - Twelve upstreams underneath customer routes is a regional carrier, not a reseller.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 9.22K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15024- Registry name
- PACKETWORKS
- Registrant
- FIBERNETICS CORPORATION
- Abuse contact
- arinabuse@fibernetics.ca
- Registered
- 2000-03-09
- Last changed
- 2026-08-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Packetworks
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
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, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS15024
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS15024
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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