Autonomous system
AS10545 LCOL - University of Lynchburg
Education ARIN
Summary
University of Lynchburg
education university legacy
The campus ASN of the University of Lynchburg, a private university in Lynchburg, Virginia. The handle LCOL is a relic of the institution's former name, Lynchburg College, which it carried until it was redesignated a university.
What it's used for
A single-campus higher-education network. RIS sees one announced IPv4 prefix, 206.168.12.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and two observed neighbours.
Two neighbours against one /24 is the ordinary shape of a small campus: the university buys transit, quite possibly through a state or regional research network as well as a commercial provider, and announces the modest block of public address space it needs. Almost everything a modern campus runs sits behind NAT or in cloud services these days, so the publicly routed footprint of a university is a poor proxy for how many people are on its network. A few thousand students and staff can live comfortably behind 256 public addresses.
Notable
LCOL is a good reminder that ARIN handles freeze the name an organisation had when the record was created. Reading the handle alone, this could be almost anything. It is only the registered organisation name that identifies it, and that is the field worth trusting.
The /24 sits in legacy 206.0.0.0/8 space, consistent with an allocation from the era when a college could get public addresses directly rather than through an upstream.
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 2026-11-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10545- Registry name
- LCOL
- Registrant
- University of Lynchburg
- Abuse contact
- hudson.b@lynchburg.edu
- Registered
- 1997-09-09
- Last changed
- 2023-04-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10545
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS10545
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 454 networks and 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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