Autonomous system
AS11050 KENT-STATE
Education ARIN
Summary
Kent State University
education university legacy
KENT-STATE is Kent State University, the public research university in Kent, Ohio. The AS is small and tidy: three /18s (about 49,000 addresses) all carved from the university's 131.123.0.0/16, no IPv6 in the observed routing, and just two BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
This is the campus network — students, faculty, residence halls, administration, libraries, labs and the university's regional campuses across north-east Ohio all sit behind it. A university of Kent State's size holds a legacy /16 from the era when class-B allocations were routine for higher education, and it has never needed more, which is why the entire AS is one contiguous block announced in thirds.
Notable
All three prefixes are registered to the KENT-STATE network handle under the university's own ARIN org, so there is no third-party space, no leasing, and no ambiguity about who operates the network. Two observed neighbours is a very small upstream set, and consistent with a campus that takes commercial transit through, or alongside, Ohio's state research-and-education network rather than peering broadly on its own account.
Interesting
The three announced /18s cover only three-quarters of 131.123.0.0/16 — the first quarter, 131.123.0.0/18, is absent from the observed routing. It may be unrouted, used internally, or simply not visible to the collectors sampled here; the honest conclusion is only that the announced footprint is smaller than the allocation.
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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 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 49.15K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11050- Registry name
- KENT-STATE
- Registrant
- Kent State University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kent.edu
- Registered
- 1998-03-23
- Last changed
- 2015-10-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11050
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS11050
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: 442 networks and 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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