AS12175 — YELMNET

AS12175 announces 14 IPv4 prefixes covering 16,128 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Rainier Connect is a Washington state broadband provider, announcing address space that carries the names of at least three previous owners.

What it's used for

• Residential and business internet across small communities in Washington. Sampled addresses answer under ellensburg.fairpoint.net, split into dynamic- and static- names.

Notable

• The registry is a fossil record. Most blocks are registered to FairPoint Communications under netnames like FAIRPOINT-ELLTEL-243-240-0 and FAIRPOINT-YCOM-227-104 — ELLTEL for Ellensburg Telephone and YCOM for Yelm, two of the operating companies FairPoint once owned. One block is still registered to Yelm Telephone Company directly under the netname CCI-WA, and only one is registered to Rainier Connect itself.
• The AS handle is YELMNET, older than every one of those names.
• A single observed BGP neighbour for 16,000 addresses across 15 prefixes. This network has exactly one way in.

Interesting

• FairPoint was itself absorbed into Consolidated Communications in 2017, which is what the CCI-WA netname points at. So a subscriber address here can be registered to a company that was bought by a company that was bought by a company, while answering to reverse DNS named after a town, on an AS named after a different town.

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

Announced prefixes

• 66.243.212.0/22
• 66.243.223.0/24
• 66.243.225.0/24
• 66.243.226.0/24
• 66.243.232.0/21
• 66.243.240.0/20
• 71.161.76.0/22
• 74.209.8.0/22
• 74.209.52.0/22
• 216.227.6.0/23
• 216.227.100.0/22
• 216.227.104.0/21
• 216.227.112.0/22
• 216.227.116.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS20394 Rainier Connect

Adjacent networks

• AS20394 Rainier Connect