AS8134 — UP-NET

Network type: residential

AS8134 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

UP-NET is the Autonomous System of the Baraga Telephone Company, a small rural telephone company in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The handle is its internet brand, UP.NET — "UP" for Upper Peninsula.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business internet access across a sparsely populated rural footprint. The reverse DNS is a textbook access pattern: every sampled address resolves to a generated per-IP name on the up.net zone, such as 206-51-112-N.up.net and 68-70-128-N-bar.up.net (the bar suffix marking the Baraga exchange).
• Local telephone service and the transport behind it, which is where the address space and the AS originally came from.

Notable

• This is a genuine eyeball / access network, just a very small one: about 10k addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, plus a 2001:4a0::/32 IPv6 allocation that is unusually generous for a carrier this size.
• Addresses here are end-user lines, mixed residential and small-business, not servers. The consistent first-party rDNS across its own assignments is what separates a real small ISP from a leased-address operation.

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

Announced prefixes

• 68.70.128.0/20
• 69.19.168.0/21
• 206.51.112.0/20
• 2001:4a0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS12129 123.Net, Inc.
• AS46208 Peninsula Fiber Network, LLC
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS12129 123.Net, Inc.
• AS46208 Peninsula Fiber Network, LLC
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.

Internet exchanges

• Detroit Internet Exchange — Detroit, United States