Autonomous system
AS7403 COLBANET
Residential ARIN NSP
Summary
Colba Net
isp legacy
COLBANET — Colba Net Inc., an independent internet service provider based on rue du Collège in Montreal, Quebec. It announces roughly 12.5k IPv4 addresses.
What it's used for
- Retail internet access in the Montreal area. Reverse DNS across the space is full of subscriber-style names such as
5-80-252-216-dsl.colba.netand10-96-180-199-dsl.colba.net— DSL lines sold to homes and small businesses. - Part of the block carries
enter-net.comhostnames, a second brand riding the same network.
Notable
- Eyeball address space, not hosting or transit: the
-dslnaming convention on customer addresses is the tell. - A regional Canadian independent, not one of the national incumbents — the routed footprint is a handful of prefixes rather than the thousands a large cable or telco operator carries.
Interesting
- Colba Net has held this ASN since 1996, making it one of the longer-lived independent ISPs in Quebec.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.19 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, 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 · 12.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7403- Registry name
- COLBANET
- Registrant
- Colba Net Inc.
- Abuse contact
- piery.garot@colbanet.ca
- Registered
- 1996-12-04
- Last changed
- 2025-03-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- COLBANET
- Also known as
- COLBANET
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS-COLBANET- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://www.colba.net
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, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7403
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 22 naming AS7403
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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