AS6553 — HTCNET-ORG
Network type: residential
AS6553 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
HTCNET-ORG is the autonomous system of Highland Telephone Cooperative, a member-owned rural telephone and internet cooperative based in Monterey, Virginia, in Highland County. It is better known online by its domain, htcnet.org.
What it's used for
The cooperative provides local and long-distance telephone service and fiber internet to households and businesses in its rural service territory. AS6553 originates the cooperative's 137.118.144.0/22 and 137.118.194.0/23 space, whose reverse DNS follows a plain subscriber pattern (137-118-144-1.htcnet.org) and which also carries the cooperative's own DNS resolvers.
Notable
This is a very small eyeball network. The whole footprint is on the order of a thousand addresses, serving one of the least populous counties in Virginia. Rural telephone cooperatives like this one are a large and often-overlooked slice of US last-mile connectivity.
The number is low, but this is not an early-internet holder: ARIN's records show the ASN registered to the cooperative in 2009, so AS6553 was reissued rather than held from the beginning.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 137.118.144.0/22
- 137.118.194.0/23
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