Autonomous system
AS8057 VISIONNET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Vision Net, Inc.
transit wholesale legacy
VISIONNET is Vision Net, Inc. of Great Falls, Montana — a statewide fibre and data-centre operator jointly owned by a group of Montana rural telephone cooperatives.
What it's used for
- Wholesale transit and backbone for its member telcos. The announced space is full of reallocations to those owners:
NEMONT-REALLOCATION,TRIANGLE-REALLOCATION, and blocks whose rDNS lands on3rivers.netandnemont.vision.net. - Enterprise WAN, managed network services and colocation/data-centre capacity for Montana businesses, schools, hospitals and government offices.
Notable
- Because it is a carrier-of-carriers, the addresses under AS8057 are a mix: some are Vision Net's own infrastructure (
ns1.vision.net), but much of it is end-user space belonging to the member cooperatives that ride on top of it. Attributing a specific IP to "Vision Net" as an operator is often wrong — the operator is usually the downstream co-op. - The geography, however, is reliable: almost everything here is Montana.
Interesting
- Vision Net exists because no single rural Montana telco is large enough to buy transit and build statewide fibre on its own — so eight of them built and own a shared carrier instead. The
-REALLOCATIONnetnames are that ownership structure showing up directly in the address registry.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.175 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 71 prefixes · 24.58K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 72 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8057- Registry name
- VISIONNET
- Registrant
- Vision Net, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vision.net
- Registered
- 1997-03-26
- Last changed
- 2007-03-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 32 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8057
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 30 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS8057
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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