AS11233 — GORGE-NETWORKS

Network type: residential

AS11233 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 15,616 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

GORGE-NETWORKS is Gorge Networks LLC, the internet provider for the Columbia River Gorge — Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties in Oregon. In 2020 Gorge Networks merged with Hermiston-based Eastern Oregon Telecom to form Blue Mountain Networks, and this AS now carries the combined operator's space.

What it's used for

Rural fixed broadband. RIS sees 8 IPv4 prefixes / ~15,104 addresses, 1 IPv6 prefix (2606:b180::/32), and 15 observed neighbours — a small eyeball ISP that multihomes and peers modestly, not a carrier. Reverse DNS names the access technology directly: static-broadband-16-5.gorge.net, pppbroadband24-5.gorge.net, static-routed.176-5.gorge.net. PPP and static-broadband pools with a smattering of routed customer blocks is the signature of a wireless/DSL/fibre access network serving homes and small businesses across a dispersed rural service area.

Notable

The prefix registrants look scattered at first glance — GORGE-NET-BLK1, GNBLCK-3, EOT-1, EOT-DYNAMIC, BLMSURELINE2018, BLMSURELINEV4 — which is the pattern that usually signals an IP-leasing operation. It is not one here. EOT is Eastern Oregon Telecom and BLM is Blue Mountain Networks: every registrant is a member of the same merged corporate group, and the space wears matching first-party rDNS (gorge.net on the Gorge blocks, eotnet.net on the EOT blocks, where an acquired network kept its original naming). Self-registered space plus first-party rDNS means a real operator, however untidy the inventory looks.

Interesting

The eotnet.net PTRs are a fossil of the merger: acquired networks routinely keep their old reverse-DNS zone long after the brand disappears.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.85.28.0/22
• 66.228.16.0/20
• 72.19.8.0/23
• 158.51.138.0/23
• 209.27.48.0/22
• 209.216.160.0/19
• 216.21.15.0/24
• 2606:b180::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS25899 LS Networks
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS293 ESnet

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS25899 LS Networks
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS293 ESnet
• AS34927 iFog GmbH

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States
• Northwest Access Exchange — Portland, United States