Autonomous system
AS10343 AS10343 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NASA
government space research science
AS10343 belongs to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States civil space agency. It is one of several NASA-held ASNs and carries agency network space rather than any commercial service.
What it's used for
- Federal agency networking: NASA centre and facility connectivity, research and mission-support systems, and the agency's own administrative infrastructure.
- The space here is legacy federal allocation (a
129.99.0.0/16class-B plus a198.9.0.0/17block and its more-specifics), the shape of an organisation that received addresses early and has kept them.
Notable
- Government, not carrier or hosting. RIS sees 5 IPv4 prefixes / 123,904 addresses announced against only 2 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio is the decisive evidence: a wholesale transit network with six figures of address space would peer with hundreds of ASes. Two upstreams and a large, contiguous, early-allocated block is the classic single-tenant federal or enterprise network — it buys connectivity, it does not sell it.
- The announced set is a handful of aggregates deaggregated into
/17,/18and/19pieces, consistent with traffic-engineering across a small number of transit links rather than a customer cone.
Interesting
- NASA is unusual among federal agencies for how much of its address space is visible in the public routing table at all: much agency networking is closed, but NASA's science and research mission means a substantial part of the organisation is reachable from the open internet.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 124K addresses IPv6 21 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 34 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10343- Registry name
- AS10343
- Registrant
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nasa.gov
- Registered
- 1997-07-01
- Last changed
- 2024-12-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10343
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 29% registered · 2 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS10343
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere