Autonomous system
AS7828 DRMSCPASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Northland Communications
isp legacy
DRMSCPASN is Northland Communications, a family-owned telecom based at Dupli Park Drive in Syracuse, New York. The handle is a leftover from Dreamscape Online, the Syracuse ISP Northland acquired in 1996; the AS still carries Dreamscape's name long after the brand was folded in.
What it's used for
- Fiber, Ethernet and broadband service across Central New York, plus business voice, colocation and hosting. Northland markets primarily to businesses in the Syracuse, Utica, Rome and Oneida corridor.
- Around 114 mostly-/24 prefixes drawn from several ARIN blocks (
209.217.192.0/19,67.216.0.0/20,216.171.176.0/20,205.142.148.0/22and others), plus IPv62606:fe00::/32. - Reverse DNS is templated across the whole footprint on a single provider domain, of the form
205-142-149-1.northland.net. It is a generic per-address pattern that does not distinguish business circuits from residual consumer lines, so the split cannot be read from rDNS alone.
Notable
- This is regional ISP address space in upstate New York with a business-first customer base, rather than a large consumer eyeball network. Northland's own product catalogue is built around business internet, business phone and cloud services.
- The fragmented, many-/24 prefix inventory is the normal shape of a small ISP that grew through acquisitions and successive ARIN assignments, not an address-broker pattern: every block is ARIN-registered to Northland itself and all of it carries consistent provider rDNS.
Interesting
- Dreamscape is remembered as the first ISP in New York State to deploy DSL. The ASN handle preserves the name of a network that stopped being a separate company three decades ago.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 27 prefixes · 26.62K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 28 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7828- Registry name
- DRMSCPASN
- Registrant
- Northland Communications
- Abuse contact
- abuse@northland.net
- Registered
- 1997-01-22
- Last changed
- 2026-08-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 112 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS7828
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 10% registered · 11 of 112 announcements 12 other origin
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS7828
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 1,784 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