Autonomous system
AS111 BOSTONU-AS
Education ARIN
IPv4 addresses
133K
22 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
1
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Boston University
education research university legacy
An early, low-numbered allocation serving Boston University, a large private
research university in Boston, Massachusetts.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for BU's students, dorms, and labs.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional (campus, dorms, labs, research clusters), classified
educationrather than commercial hosting. - A three-digit AS number reflects how early BU connected, when numbers were handed out sequentially in the internet's first years.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS111- Registry name
- BOSTONU-AS
- Registrant
- Boston University
- Abuse contact
- IRT@bu.edu
- Registered
- 1987-05-11
- Last changed
- 2023-06-07
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere