AS11876 — HFCOMM-AS-01

AS11876 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HFCOMM-AS-01 belongs to HeadFirst Communications, a very small network operator registered in ARIN to an address in Waterville, Minnesota. It is a single-prefix, single-upstream network, and the public evidence is too thin to say confidently what the space carries.

What it's used for

Unclear, and the card says so rather than guessing. RIS sees one IPv4 prefix, 23.167.88.0/24 (256 addresses), one IPv6 /40, and exactly one observed neighbour. A single neighbour means the AS buys transit from one upstream and sells none: this is an end network, not a carrier. The /24 is registered in ARIN to HeadFirst Communications itself, so the space is self-held rather than leased in from a third party, which rules out the IP-brokerage shape.

Notable

• ARIN dates the AS number to November 2023. Despite the low five-digit number, this is recently reissued space, and nothing about the network is an early-internet artifact. The registration contact is an individual, and the postal address is a rural one, which is the profile of an owner-operator rather than a corporate NOC.
• The IPv6 allocation is notably generous relative to the IPv4 footprint: a /40 is enough to hand a /48 to thousands of downstream sites. That is the shape an operator adopts when it intends to delegate to customers, but intent is not evidence, and no reverse DNS was observed on the addresses sampled to confirm what actually lives there. Held at low confidence for that reason.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.167.88.0/24
• 2602:f9de::/40

Upstream networks

• AS12042 Fidium

Adjacent networks

• AS12042 Fidium