AS11084 — HURONTEL

Network type: residential

AS11084 announces 17 IPv4 prefixes covering 27,904 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HURONTEL is Huron Telecommunications Cooperative Limited (Hurontel), an independent telephone cooperative in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is a rural incumbent-style access provider: all its space is registered to its own ARIN handles (HURONTEL-1BLK through HURONTEL-5BLK) and the reverse DNS lives under hurontel.on.ca.

What it's used for

Consumer and small-business broadband in rural southwestern Ontario. The AS announces 39 IPv4 prefixes (~30,720 addresses) and one IPv6 /32 (2610::/32), with 11 observed neighbours — an upstream handful, not a peering fabric. Everything about the shape says eyeball network: modest address space, many longer prefixes carved out of a few /19s and /20s, and a short list of transit relationships.

Notable

The reverse DNS is the clincher and it names the access technology, not the customer. Sampled PTRs read pppoe.dyn-96.44.32.5.hurontel.on.ca and ipoe.dyn-96.44.36.5.hurontel.on.ca — dynamic subscriber pools terminated on PPPoE and IPoE concentrators, the standard way a telco co-op numbers DSL and fibre customers. A gateway hostname hsia22-god-gw.hurontel.on.ca uses the industry abbreviation for High Speed Internet Access, and cpe4.bgcdsb.org shows customer-premises equipment at a local institution.

Interesting

The AS also carries PTRs under tcc.on.ca and brktel.on.ca — Tuckersmith Communications and Brooke Telecom, two other Ontario telephone cooperatives. Small co-ops in the region routinely share transit, routing and infrastructure through a common AS rather than each buying their own, so one number ends up carrying several sister networks' subscribers. The space is still self-registered throughout, which distinguishes this from an address-leasing arrangement.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 67.21.96.0/20
• 67.220.32.0/23
• 67.220.35.0/24
• 67.220.36.0/22
• 67.220.40.0/21
• 96.44.32.0/21
• 96.44.40.0/22
• 96.44.45.0/24
• 96.44.46.0/23
• 96.44.48.0/20
• 173.255.64.0/21
• 199.114.240.0/21
• 216.46.128.0/20
• 216.46.144.0/21
• 216.46.152.0/22
• 216.46.156.0/23
• 216.46.159.0/24
• 2610::/32

Upstream networks

• AS11287 Mitchell Seaforth Cable T. V. Ltd.
• AS11666 Nexicom Inc.
• AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS

Adjacent networks

• AS11287 Mitchell Seaforth Cable T. V. Ltd.
• AS11666 Nexicom Inc.
• AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada