AS13956 — RGTC-1 - Richland-Grant Telephone Cooperative, Inc.

AS13956 announces 0 IPv4 prefixes covering 0 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A telephone cooperative announcing IPv6 and no IPv4 at all.

What it's used for

• A rural telephone cooperative's network. One IPv6 prefix, 2602:fa24::/40, no IPv4 announced, and one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The IPv4 inventory is empty, which is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly.
• The registry lookup for the prefix failed, so nothing here describes who holds it.
• No addresses were sampled for reverse DNS, because there were no IPv4 addresses to sample.

Interesting

• Almost every network announcing IPv6 announces IPv4 alongside it, because the older protocol is where the customers and the destinations still are. An AS carrying only the newer one is either at the very start of building something or is announcing its subscriber space through a different number entirely.
• A /40 is a substantial IPv6 allocation, large enough to give every subscriber a network of their own with room left over. A rural cooperative holding that much is the ordinary result of registries sizing IPv6 by organisation rather than by demand.
• Cooperatives of this kind own their lines because no commercial carrier would build them. The same reasoning tends to produce an AS number early and address space held directly.

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

Announced prefixes

• 2602:fa24::/40

Upstream networks

• AS11796 Airstream Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS11796 Airstream Communications, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-GBLX, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST, AS11796:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS11796:AS-CUSTOMERS-ARIN.