Autonomous system
AS7106 INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK
Residential ARIN
Summary
Com Net, Inc. / Independents Fiber Network (Bright.net)
isp legacy
INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK is operated by Com Net, Inc. of Wapakoneta, Ohio. Independents Fiber Network is Com Net's fiber subsidiary, a backhaul and transport network built with and for Ohio's independent local telephone companies; the retail broadband riding on it is branded Bright.net.
What it's used for
- Consumer broadband access across rural and small-town Ohio (and nearby Michigan and Indiana), delivered through the member independent telcos.
- Fiber backhaul and Ethernet transport between those independent providers.
- Announces roughly nine prefixes including several /18s and /19s, plus
2607:fa10::/32for IPv6.
Notable
- Reverse DNS settles the question of what the space is: names like
ridg-ftth-…ftth.bright.net,celina-pppoe-…dsl.bright.netandstm-osi-dhcp-…brightohio.netare textbook subscriber pools (fibre-to-the-home, PPPoE DSL and DHCP), with per-town prefixes on the hostnames. - Despite the wholesale-sounding "fiber network" name, the address space is predominantly eyeball space: households on FTTH and DSL.
- The ARIN organisation handle is still
BNET-Z, a legacy artifact of the Bright.net registration.
Interesting
- This is a co-operative shape that is common in the rural US: a group of small independent telephone companies pool one fiber network and one AS rather than each running their own transit and routing.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio IX | Columbus, United States | 206.53.204.15 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 48 prefixes · 62.72K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 49 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7106- Registry name
- INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK
- Registrant
- Com Net, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@cniteam.com
- Registered
- 1996-09-06
- Last changed
- 2023-10-26
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS7106
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 111 naming AS7106
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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