AS7253 — MAINSTAY-COMMUNICATIONS
Network type: residential
AS7253 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
MAINSTAY-COMMUNICATIONS belongs to Mainstay Communications, a small telecommunications provider based in Henderson, Nebraska, serving Henderson and surrounding York County communities.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business internet access — fiber, fixed wireless and legacy DSL — across a handful of rural Nebraska towns.
- Reverse DNS on its space uses a …dynamic.mainstaycomm.net pattern, the telltale of a dynamically addressed subscriber pool.
Notable
- The network is tiny by ISP standards: a single /21 plus a /24, enough for a service area measured in the low thousands of residents.
- Small independent telcos like this are the backbone of rural US connectivity, and many of them run their own AS purely so they can multihome to more than one upstream.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 96.46.96.0/21
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