Autonomous system
AS15171 TOMBIGBEE-FIBER
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Tombigbee Fiber
isp telecom infrastructure
Thirty-one prefixes, one netname, and it is an acronym for something else.
What it's used for
- A rural fibre provider's network. Thirty-one IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, and three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Nearly every block carries the netname
TEPA-4, a four-letter acronym followed by the protocol version, which shares no letters in sequence with the holder's name. - One block breaks the pattern with a netname that spells the company out and adds a counter, so the two conventions sit side by side in the same record.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The routing history begins in 2004, well before the fibre business the holder is named for.
- Thirty-one separate announcements cover thirty-seven thousand addresses, an average of about twelve hundred each.
Interesting
- An acronym that cannot be derived from the current company name almost always preserves the organisation that first received the addresses. The registry keeps the old identity because renaming a netname means reissuing it, and nobody does that for a label nobody reads.
- Thirty-one announcements for a network this size means the space arrived in many small pieces over many years rather than as one allocation, which is the normal shape for a provider that grew by serving one community at a time.
- No reverse names at all across a whole subscriber network is a choice, and it means an address here carries no clue about which town or device it belongs to.
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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 31 prefixes · 37.89K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 31 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15171- Registry name
- TOMBIGBEE-FIBER
- Registrant
- Tombigbee Fiber LLC
- Abuse contact
- cthompson@tombigbeeelectric.com
- Registered
- 2020-02-11
- Last changed
- 2020-02-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 82 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS15171
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 82 of 82 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS15171
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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