AS12261 — DEKALB

AS12261 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 15,872 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

DTC Communications is a middle Tennessee telephone cooperative, originally the DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, providing phone, internet and video to its members.

What it's used for

• Residential and business broadband across rural counties. Sampled addresses answer as host-208-118-203-254.dtccom.net.

Notable

• Some of the announced space answers under blomand.net instead, with names like occm-254.dhcp.grp3-rng1.tnmmvl.blomand.net. That is Ben Lomand Connect, a neighbouring Tennessee cooperative, and tnmmvl encodes McMinnville, one of its towns. Two co-ops sharing routing infrastructure is a common arrangement in rural telecoms, where neither has the scale to run everything alone.
• 15,600 addresses over nine prefixes with two observed BGP neighbours. A small access network with a small external surface.
• The blocks split into two registry generations: DTCCOM-NET on the older space, and a plainly numbered 137-119-208-0-20 netname on the more recent 137.119 allocations.

Interesting

• The AS handle is still DEKALB, naming the county the cooperative was founded to serve before it renamed itself to something less parochial. The routing table is one of the few places the original name survives.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.253.208.0/21
• 64.253.216.0/23
• 64.253.220.0/22
• 137.119.208.0/20
• 173.242.240.0/20
• 208.118.192.0/20
• 2606:900::/32

Upstream networks

• AS11758 IRIS Networks
• AS19331 Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation

Adjacent networks

• AS11758 IRIS Networks
• AS19331 Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation