Autonomous system
AS23404 RITTERNET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Ritter Communications
cable residential isp business
The AS handle RITTERNET is operated by Ritter Communications.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business access traffic, evidenced by netnames such as
XIPLINE,BIGRIVER-INTERNET, andRITTERNET-BLK-1-MARKED-TREE-AR-HFC, alongside reverse DNS entries likehost254-27-159-98.xipline.comand64-233-133-254.ritternet.com. - The network announces 56,320 IPv4 addresses across 77 prefixes and maintains 48 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access provider rather than a transit carrier.
Notable
- All sampled registrants align with the announcer, listing "Ritter Communications" or "Ritter Communications, Inc." for prefixes including
98.159.16.0/20and64.233.128.0/21. - The inventory is finely subdivided into site-specific blocks, such as
RITTERNET-BLK-1-MARKED-TREE-AR-HFC, indicating an internal corporate estate segmented by location and technology.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.155 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.202 |
| Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange | Atlanta, United States | 206.126.110.148 |
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.148 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 29 downstream and 49 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 77 prefixes · 56.32K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 78 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS23404- Registry name
- RITTERNET
- Registrant
- Rightfiber
- Abuse contact
- abusereports@rittercommunications.com
- Registered
- 2002-03-14
- Last changed
- 2023-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 92 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS23404
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 74% registered · 68 of 92 announcements 23 other origin
- Route objects
- 154 naming AS23404
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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